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	% Change
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-87	-5.4%
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-200	-32.5%
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+200	16.3%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+23	53.5%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+478	9.2%
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-315	-80.8%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-38	-6.7%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+1	+294	83.1%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	+13	21.7%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	-28	-23.1%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	+100	22.2%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-9	-2.8%
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+76	116.9%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+554	24.7%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-19	-7.5%
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	0	-10	-23.3%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-1	-140	-2.9%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+331	145.2%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+20	22.2%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+133	71.9%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+10	+4,767	8.1%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-2	+50	0.6%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+203	26.9%
	Totals:	+4	+6,396	+7.3%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 145,196; in 2000 it was 165,740. The total population changed 14.1%. The adherent totals for 1990 (97,525) represent 67.2% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (94,725) include 57.2% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 23 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 23 groups had 87,298 adherents in 1990 and 93,694 adherents in 2000, for a change of 7.3%

Sources

The 2000 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and includes statistics for 149 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Dale E. Jones, Sherri Doty, Clifford Grammich, James E. Horsch, Richard Houseal, Mac Lynn, John P. Marcum, Kenneth M. Sanchagrin and Richard H. Taylor supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States, 2000, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

The 1990 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and include statistics for 132 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Martin B. Bradley, Norman M. Green, Jr., Dale E. Jones, Mac Lynn, and Lou McNeil supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1990, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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