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	% Change
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+578	45.3%
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+436	19.1%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+188	66.2%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+186	36.3%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+148	23.1%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	+122	23.7%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	+66	14.9%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+60	77.9%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	0	+47	1566.7%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+42	n.a.
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+30	115.4%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+27	73.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	0	+25	7.5%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+16	13.4%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	+10	4.8%
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-5	-2.6%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	-37	-10.7%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-47	-38.5%
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-104	-19.7%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	-167	-6.5%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-377	-28.7%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-7	-1,158	-8.3%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-1,615	-7.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-2,055	-52.5%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
	Totals:	-1	-3,584	-6.8%

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 adherent totals for 1990 (66,892) represent 58.5% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (55,026) include 43.8% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 24 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 24 groups had 52,675 adherents in 1990 and 49,091 adherents in 2000, for a change of -6.8%

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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