Fayetteville, NC MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

61,797	31,029	521	9,182	2,915	197,519
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	% Change
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	0	+3,084	149.1%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+73	5.6%
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+2,916	46.5%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+9	7.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-6	-601	-69.2%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+386	299.2%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+771	20.4%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-7	-2.5%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+2	+426	22.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	-28	-10.4%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+41	6.8%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-159	-8.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+539	78.1%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	0	+43	238.9%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+6,625	588.9%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	0	-525	-26.9%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	-2	+1,476	27.6%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	+300	n.a.
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-220	-50.2%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	0	+99	275.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-1	+73	1.1%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+161	169.5%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+52	57.1%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+280	37.6%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+2,092	6.3%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	+25	9.9%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	+1,692	12.5%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+25	16.7%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+32	37.6%
	Totals:	-2	+19,680	+23.3%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 274,566; in 2000 it was 302,963. The total population changed 10.3%. The adherent totals for 1990 (122,964) represent 44.8% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (105,444) include 34.8% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 29 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 29 groups had 84,406 adherents in 1990 and 104,086 adherents in 2000, for a change of 23.3%

Sources

The 2000 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and includes statistics for 149 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Dale E. Jones, Sherri Doty, Clifford Grammich, James E. Horsch, Richard Houseal, Mac Lynn, John P. Marcum, Kenneth M. Sanchagrin and Richard H. Taylor supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States, 2000, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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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