Richland County, South Carolina

Denominational Groups, 2000

62,313	51,822	783	12,681	5,794	187,284
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
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	0	+1,156	72.7%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	-2	+300	52.7%
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+697	19.8%
Catholic Church	Catholic	-1	+5,151	68.4%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	+48	17.5%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+126	34.5%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-214	-39.6%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+151	15.6%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	0	+8	10.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	-530	-32.8%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+542	70.9%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+2	-36	-2.8%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	+107	1.4%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	-1	+206	2.5%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	0	+49	163.3%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	0	+194	510.5%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+747	59.0%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	-1	+1,486	117.6%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-95	-26.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-131	-68.2%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	+1	+932	10.4%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	-3	-251	-5.9%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+114	102.7%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-621	-51.8%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+6	-1,454	-3.2%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	-189	-44.4%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	+2	+1,171	5.5%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-106	-33.4%
	Totals:	+4	+9,558	+8.0%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 285,720; in 2000 it was 320,677. The total population changed 12.2%. The adherent totals for 1990 (154,586) represent 54.1% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (133,393) include 41.6% 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 119,552 adherents in 1990 and 129,110 adherents in 2000, for a change of 8.0%

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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