Beaufort County, South Carolina

Denominational Groups, 2000

13,850	13,930	3	9,735	2,132	81,287
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^†
Catholic Church	Catholic	4	2,133	32.6
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	489	7.5
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	30	0.5
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	72	1.1
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	1	130	2.0
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	1	90	1.4
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	64	1.0
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	90	1.4
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	44	0.7
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	46	0.7
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	9	6,604	101.0
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	4	408	6.2
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	3	2,021	30.9
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	2	536	8.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	3	1,450	22.2
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	8	2,406	36.8
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	2	307	4.7
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	1	42	0.6
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	28	0.4
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	49	16,990

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 65,364. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (16,990) include 26.0% 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.