Greensboro--Winston-Salem--High Point, NC MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

265,813	242,899	1,566	43,022	15,039	683,170
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^†
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	364	127,971	134.5
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	316	157,487	165.6
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	97	24,705	26.0
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	76	32,470	34.1
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	52	12,280	12.9
Moravian Church in America--Southern Province	Mainline Protestant	38	17,897	18.8
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	37	12,622	13.3
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	35	2,938	3.1
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	35	30,213	31.8
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	32	4,077	4.3
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	31	3,320	3.5
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	24	10,549	11.1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	23	5,478	5.8
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	17	4,592	4.8
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	17	2,586	2.7
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	16	2,318	2.4
Catholic Church	Catholic	15	16,884	17.8
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	12	3,108	3.3
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	11	798	0.8
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	10	2,071	2.2
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,520	1.6
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	8	2,981	3.1
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,534	1.6
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	7	3,003	3.2
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,086	1.1
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	6	1,406	1.5
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	4	759	0.8
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	3	388	0.4
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	352	0.4
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	421	0.4
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	2	295	0.3
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	1	854	0.9
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	30	0.0
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	n.a.	40	0.0
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	1,318	489,033

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 951,170. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (489,033) include 51.4% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

^†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.