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	+2	+1,860	217.0%
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+38	38.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+3,973	154.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-88	-40.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+73	n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+158	n.a.
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+1,347	370.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+45	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+3	+676	65.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+398	48.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+114	28.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	+384	31.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+1,526	10.0%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+591	191.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-136	-30.0%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	+1	+75	n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	+1	+3,186	185.0%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+1,878	1260.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+207	32.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+10	+18,331	62.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-1	+3,578	28.0%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+150	n.a.
	Totals:	+33	+38,364	+55.7%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 140,353; in 2000 it was 216,014. The total population changed 28.9%. The adherent totals for 1980 (69,476) represent 49.5% of the 1980 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 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 22 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 22 groups had 68,836 adherents in 1980 and 107,200 adherents in 2000, for a change of 55.7%

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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