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
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+3,939	60.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+148	231.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+616	474.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+340	739.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	+3	+3,488	241.0%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+333	n.a.
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+44	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+1	+790	257.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+1	+680	127.0%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+1	+358	852.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+216	n.a.
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	+1	+157	561.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	+1	+1,577	78.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	+1,158	48.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	+76	16.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	-73	-81.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+157	357.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	-35	-49.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+7,602	356.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-1	+206	50.0%
	Totals:	+24	+21,777	+129.1%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 65,364; in 2000 it was 120,937. The total population changed 39.9%. The adherent totals for 1980 (16,990) represent 26.0% of the 1980 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 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 20 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 20 groups had 16,870 adherents in 1980 and 38,647 adherents in 2000, for a change of 129.1%

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 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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