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	+4	+739	95.0%
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-18	-4.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+243	20.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+5	8.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+1,451	34.0%
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	-199	-73.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+12	+528	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+1	+424	189.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+73	n.a.
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	-82	-47.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	+1	-8	-1.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-78	-20.0%
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+141	n.a.
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+1,004	56.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+234	n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-2	+116	3.0%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+402	256.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-920	-89.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+149	88.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+15	+10,490	20.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-6	+232	3.0%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+958	n.a.
	Totals:	+41	+15,884	+20.4%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 133,235; in 2000 it was 165,740. The total population changed 14.1%. The adherent totals for 1980 (77,797) represent 58.4% of the 1980 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 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 22 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 22 groups had 77,777 adherents in 1980 and 93,661 adherents in 2000, for a change of 20.4%

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 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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