Lexington County, South Carolina

Denominational Groups, 2000

58,698	40,205	75	6,561	2,012	108,463
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
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	+804	42.0%
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-140	-50.4%
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+2,549	63.5%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-97	-42.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+73	n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+54	51.9%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+833	94.9%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-37	-45.1%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+1	+248	16.8%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-4	-0.3%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	-220	-29.5%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	+56	3.6%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+130	0.8%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+410	83.5%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-52	-14.4%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	+2,944	149.6%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+1,420	233.9%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+791	1492.5%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+9,254	24.1%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-2	+726	4.7%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+115	328.6%
	Totals:	+8	+19,857	+22.8%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 167,611; in 2000 it was 216,014. The total population changed 28.9%. The adherent totals for 1990 (97,203) represent 58.0% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (107,551) include 49.8% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 21 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 21 groups had 87,268 adherents in 1990 and 107,125 adherents in 2000, for a change of 22.8%

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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