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^†
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	179	106,274	222.6
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	61	26,705	55.9
Catholic Church	Catholic	12	19,637	41.1
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	17	6,650	13.9
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	14	5,465	11.5
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	22	5,071	10.6
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	9	4,369	9.2
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	5	4,100	8.6
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	10	3,925	8.2
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	4	3,200	6.7
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	6	2,864	6.0
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	18	2,386	5.0
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	17	2,180	4.6
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	11	1,559	3.3
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	3	1,515	3.2
Muslim Estimate	Other Theology	2	1,218	2.6
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,208	2.5
Vineyard USA	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,077	2.3
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,047	2.2
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	6	953	2.0
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	2	752	1.6
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	2	724	1.5
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	4	499	1.1
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	444	0.9
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	399	0.8
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	402	0.8
Progressive Primitive Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	2	301	0.6
Bahá'í	Other Theology	3	290	0.6
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	3	265	0.6
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	210	0.4
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	6	186	0.4
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	188	0.4
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	187	0.4
Malankara Archdiocese of the Syrian Orthodox Church in North America	Orthodox	1	150	0.3
Mennonite; Other Groups	Evangelical Protestant	2	134	0.3
Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, The	Orthodox	1	118	0.3
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	2	98	0.2
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	66	0.1
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	63	0.1
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	61	0.1
Community of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	46	0.1
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	1	34	0.1
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	30	0.1
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	16	0.0
Buddhism	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
Calvary Chapel Fellowship Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Jain	Other Theology	2	n.a.	n.a.
Primitive Baptist Churches--Old Line	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Sikh	Other Theology	2	n.a.	n.a.
Southwide Baptist Fellowship	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Hindu	Other Theology	4	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	470	207,066
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		304,519

The population of these 5 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 415,184; in 2000 it was 477,441. The total population changed 15.0%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (207,066) include 43.4% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (304,519) include 63.8% of the population.

Source

^*The “Unadjusted Totals” come from the 1990 and 2000 data collected by representatives of the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). While quite comprehensive, this data excludes most of the historically African-American denominations and some other major groups. As a result, these numbers will be an underestimate of the total adherence rate, particularly in areas with a large African-American population. The 2000 data included 149 religious groups and the final results are published in Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Copyright © 2002, All rights reserved. The 1990 data included 132 groups and the final results are published in Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990 Copyright © 1990, All rights reserved. Published by Glenmary Research Center, 1312 Fifth Ave., North, Nashville, TN 37208. www.glenmary.org/grc [More information on the data collection]

^**The “Adjusted Totals” include all adherents in the denominations counted by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and estimates adherent totals for the historically African-American denominations and other religious groups not listed in the ASARB totals. An article by Roger Finke and Christopher P. Scheitle (2005) reviews how these estimates were computed.

^†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.

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