Charleston County, South Carolina

Denominational Groups, 2000

48,213	49,651	1,204	23,772	9,506	177,623
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
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+1,650	165.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	+262	111.5%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+146	110.6%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+214	110.3%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	+2,345	88.3%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+131	76.2%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	+425	39.5%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+86	38.1%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+26	37.7%
Catholic Church	Catholic	+1	+6,501	37.6%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	+2	+1,934	17.8%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+63	13.8%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-2	+1,383	12.9%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	0	+11	6.7%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+30	3.1%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	+3	0.6%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	-40	-2.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	+3	-1,456	-7.6%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-151	-10.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-267	-15.8%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	-1	-1,166	-16.2%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+5	-10,080	-21.9%
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	0	-15	-28.3%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	0	-21	-42.0%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-590	-54.1%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-146	-54.5%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-441	-67.4%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-3,680	-80.0%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	0	n.a.	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
	Totals:	+13	-2,843	-2.2%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 295,039; in 2000 it was 309,969. The total population changed 5.1%. The adherent totals for 1990 (160,857) represent 54.5% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (132,346) include 42.7% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 28 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 28 groups had 130,775 adherents in 1990 and 127,932 adherents in 2000, for a change of -2.2%

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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