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^†
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	44	0.0
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	8	11,883	7.9
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Etchmiadzin	Orthodox	1	420	0.3
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	29	7,883	5.3
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	39	8,406	5.6
Bahá'í	Other Theology	3	1,929	1.3
Buddhism	Other Theology	9	n.a.	n.a.
Calvary Chapel Fellowship Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Catholic Church	Catholic	26	85,842	57.3
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	12	1,104	0.7
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	5	881	0.6
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,651	1.1
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	11	843	0.6
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	90	27,285	18.2
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	19	955	0.6
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	16	7,347	4.9
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	41	0.0
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	22	3,825	2.6
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	26	4,022	2.7
Community of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	131	0.1
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	33	14,179	9.5
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	386	0.3
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	1,000	0.7
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	94	37,340	24.9
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	8	3,084	2.1
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	51	0.0
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	3	429	0.3
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	2	2,652	1.8
Hindu	Other Theology	3	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,350	0.9
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	8	8,765	5.9
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	27	6,068	4.1
International Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	743	0.5
International Council of Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	1,082	0.7
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	22	3,412	2.3
Jain	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	5	8,810	5.9
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	11	2,812	1.9
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	8	0.0
Moravian Church in America--Southern Province	Mainline Protestant	3	495	0.3
Muslim Estimate	Other Theology	6	7,883	5.3
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	44	5,112	3.4
National Primitive Baptist Convention, USA	Evangelical Protestant	10	4,785	3.2
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	88	0.1
Original Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	2	227	0.2
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	1	149	0.1
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	197	0.1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	171	68,204	45.5
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	33	10,178	6.8
Primitive Baptist Churches--Old Line	Evangelical Protestant	10	n.a.	n.a.
Reformed Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,135	0.8
Serbian Orthodox Church in the USA	Orthodox	1	250	0.2
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	16	4,236	2.8
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	511	261,719	174.6
Southwide Baptist Fellowship	Evangelical Protestant	9	n.a.	n.a.
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	2	867	0.6
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	25	5,258	3.5
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	256	117,393	78.3
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	2	264	0.2
Vineyard USA	Evangelical Protestant	2	319	0.2
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	27	5,728	3.8
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	2	167	0.1
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	1,701	751,317
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		973,966

The population of these 7 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 1,162,093; in 2000 it was 1,499,293. The total population changed 29.0%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (751,317) include 50.1% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (973,966) include 65.0% 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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