Anderson County, South Carolina

Denominational Groups, 2000

77,369	14,454	36	1,426	1,440	71,015
Evangelical Protestant	Mainline Protestant	Orthodox	Catholic	Other	Unclaimed

Congregational "adherents" include all full members, their children, and others who regularly attend services. The historically African American denominations are not included in the 2000 congregation and membership totals. Many are also missing in 1990 and most historically African American denominations are missing in the 1980 reports.
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Reports

Religious Bodies	Theology	Congregations	Adherents	Adherence Rate^†
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	90	53,085	398.4
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	42	8,730	65.5
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	20	4,510	33.9
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	19	4,223	31.7
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,792	13.5
Catholic Church	Catholic	2	1,183	8.9
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	1,030	7.7
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	5	778	5.8
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	1	558	4.2
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	434	3.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	394	3.0
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	274	2.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	224	1.7
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	175	1.3
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	169	1.3
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	157	1.2
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	61	0.5
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	20	0.2
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	202	77,797

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 133,235. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (77,797) include 58.4% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

^†The adherence rate provides the number of adherents of a particular group per 1,000 population. For example, in 2000 the Episcopal Church had an adherence rate of approximately 8 (8.1) in Autauga County, Alabama. This means that 8 out of every 1,000 people in Autauga county are Episcopalian.