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