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	% Change
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+497	199.6%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+235	155.6%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+1,943	22.6%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+39	22.5%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+1	+240	24.6%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+1	+400	n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	+1	+1,659	50.6%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+254	321.5%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	+1	+126	213.6%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	-39	-51.3%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	+148	15.6%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	-18	-51.4%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+116	116.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	+364	11.4%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+36	6.8%
Catholic Church	Catholic	-1	+5,861	151.3%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-1	+252	69.6%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-38	-46.3%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	-1	+643	21.8%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+14	7.5%
	Totals:	+6	+12,732	+49.1%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 86,425; in 2000 it was 120,937. The total population changed 39.9%. The adherent totals for 1990 (33,680) represent 39.0% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (39,650) include 32.8% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 20 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 20 groups had 25,915 adherents in 1990 and 38,647 adherents in 2000, for a change of 49.1%

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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