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Augusta-Aiken, GA-SC MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

135,700 44,985 670 19,637 6,074 270,375
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
Advent Christian Church Evangelical Protestant 3 559 1.5
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 2 1,294 3.6
American Baptist Association, The Evangelical Protestant 1 19 0.1
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 2 788 2.2
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 5 549 1.5
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 1 80 0.2
Catholic Church Catholic 12 12,690 34.9
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 1 149 0.4
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 6 605 1.7
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 8 1,692 4.7
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 4 717 2.0
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 5 558 1.5
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 25 3,072 8.5
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 4 1,429 3.9
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 5 1,304 3.6
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 15 1,443 4.0
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 15 6,114 16.8
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 8 3,789 10.4
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 22 0.1
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 1 179 0.5
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 11 920 2.5
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 2 806 2.2
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 2 712 2.0
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 16 6,308 17.4
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 3 1,284 3.5
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 2 495 1.4
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 4 905 2.5
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 155 91,691 252.3
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 183 0.5
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 59 25,113 69.1
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant n.a. 20 0.1
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 37 0.1
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 380 165,526  

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 363,446. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (165,526) include 45.5% 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.