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^†
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	455	234,629	201.9
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	259	107,917	92.9
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	166	64,899	55.9
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	165	98,852	85.1
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	91	37,006	31.8
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	81	17,341	14.9
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	62	7,414	6.4
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	31	8,753	7.5
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	31	13,334	11.5
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	29	9,056	7.8
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	29	6,081	5.2
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	27	3,856	3.3
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	26	5,973	5.1
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	26	4,331	3.7
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	26	1,130	1.0
Catholic Church	Catholic	24	37,155	32.0
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	22	2,647	2.3
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	21	4,477	3.9
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	21	4,699	4.0
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	14	5,960	5.1
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	13	3,773	3.3
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	13	3,427	3.0
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	12	1,298	1.1
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	10	12,560	10.8
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	10	630	0.5
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	8	8,117	7.0
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	8	692	0.6
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	7	1,398	1.2
Primitive Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	6	492	0.4
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	6	4,600	4.0
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	5	689	0.6
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	5	757	0.7
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	5	708	0.6
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	220	0.2
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	4	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	4	2,175	1.9
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	3	267	0.2
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	3	147	0.1
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	2	171	0.2
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	2	861	0.7
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	475	0.4
Moravian Church in America--Southern Province	Mainline Protestant	2	772	0.7
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	76	0.1
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	71,948	61.9
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	1,745	791,763

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 1,162,093. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (791,763) include 68.1% of the total population in 1990.

Source

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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^†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.