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Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

143,129 57,427   6,499 2,092 132,704
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 +12 0.9%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +7 +1,226 113.7%
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 0 +359 338.7%
Catholic Church Catholic 0 +2,976 84.5%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +599 443.7%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 0 +29 90.6%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +1 +263 271.1%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 0 -144 -11.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +2 +853 35.2%
Church of God General Conference Evangelical Protestant 0 -1 -0.9%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant -3 -109 -41.6%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 0 +354 24.6%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 0 -14 -19.2%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 +117 16.6%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 +271 13.4%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant -1 -1,893 -10.5%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 +69 690.0%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 0 +366 24.6%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 0 -1,240 -91.9%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant -1 +500 6.0%
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of Evangelical Protestant 0 +76 78.4%
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant 0 -10 -5.8%
Moravian Church in America--Southern Province Mainline Protestant 0 -10 -7.1%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant 0 +245 46.7%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -1 +252 4.5%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 0 -75 -44.6%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +152 96.2%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +1 +158 17.8%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +23 +12,441 11.6%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 +20 62.5%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -1 -800 -20.4%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 0 +1,323 4.9%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant -2 +211 25.2%
  Totals: +27 +18,576 +9.8%

The population of these 4 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 292,409; in 2000 it was 341,851. The total population changed 16.9%. The adherent totals for 1990 (204,032) represent 69.8% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (209,147) include 61.2% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 33 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 33 groups had 190,276 adherents in 1990 and 208,852 adherents in 2000, for a change of 9.8%

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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