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^†
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	11	8,600	99.5
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	8	3,200	37.0
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	5	2,955	34.2
Catholic Church	Catholic	5	3,874	44.8
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	5	3,279	37.9
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	4	362	4.2
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	4	173	2.0
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	3	949	11.0
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	2	529	6.1
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	79	0.9
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	2	976	11.3
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	2	82	1.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	151	1.8
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	187	2.2
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	2	249	2.9
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	100	1.2
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	59	0.7
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	1	0	0.0
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	76	0.9
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	29	0.3
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	79	0.9
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	1	35	0.4
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	45	0.5
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	7,612	88.1
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	68	33,680

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 86,425. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (33,680) include 39.0% of the total population in 1990.

Source

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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^†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.