Florence, SC MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

31,769	16,844	432	2,716	3,265	70,735
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	44	21,446	170.5
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	38	12,721	101.2
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	30	1,858	14.8
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	27	3,095	24.6
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	14	1,854	14.7
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	9	2,399	19.1
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	8	360	2.9
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	8	472	3.8
Catholic Church	Catholic	4	2,716	21.6
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	3	137	1.1
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	3	936	7.4
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	699	5.6
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	3	510	4.1
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	2	309	2.5
Muslim Estimate	Other Theology	2	70	0.6
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	2	788	6.3
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	637	5.1
Bahá'í	Other Theology	1	2,338	18.6
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	184	1.5
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	56	0.5
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	432	3.4
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	42	0.3
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	1	50	0.4
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	1	220	1.8
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	75	0.6
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	64	0.5
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	135	1.1
Southwide Baptist Fellowship	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	423	3.4
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	213	55,026
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		84,956

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 114,344; in 2000 it was 125,761. The total population changed 10.0%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (55,026) include 43.8% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (84,956) include 67.6% 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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