Cherokee County, South Carolina

Denominational Groups, 2000

27,726	2,149		614	49	21,999
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^†
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	606	14.8
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	52	1.3
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	122	3.0
Catholic Church	Catholic	1	174	4.3
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	5	656	16.0
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	455	11.1
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	64	1.6
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	1	128	3.1
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	126	3.1
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	1	115	2.8
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	3	580	14.2
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	2	181	4.4
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	219	5.3
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	56	23,302	568.6
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	8	1,756	42.9
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	86	28,536

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 40,983. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (28,536) include 69.6% 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.