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