Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC-SC MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

377,760	257,408	3,471	85,842	26,836	747,976
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	6	1,055	1.1
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	145	88,015	90.6
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	9	0.0
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	7	6,031	6.2
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	21	6,815	7.0
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	32	8,739	9.0
Catholic Church	Catholic	20	21,887	22.5
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	425	0.4
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	3	140	0.1
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	7	1,509	1.6
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	5	516	0.5
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,731	1.8
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	80	11,639	12.0
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	8	2,684	2.8
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	19	5,177	5.3
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	22	2,426	2.5
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	28	13,435	13.8
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	89	38,084	39.2
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	307	0.3
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	60	0.1
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	20	3,333	3.4
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	11	1,213	1.3
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	5	1,136	1.2
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	9	3,681	3.8
Moravian Church in America--Southern Province	Mainline Protestant	2	590	0.6
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	178	67,480	69.5
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	18	3,700	3.8
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	6	2,834	2.9
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	7	2,555	2.6
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	420	210,047	216.2
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	528	0.5
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	26	6,189	6.4
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	257	103,481	106.5
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	50	0.1
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	1,470	617,501

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 971,391. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (617,501) include 63.6% 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.