Myrtle Beach, SC MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

47,112	19,045	360	14,360	2,249	113,503
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
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+8,991	167.5%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+8	+6,740	20.7%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	+1,174	38.3%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+497	31.3%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+266	35.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	+264	49.2%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+226	62.1%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+136	30.8%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+114	41.2%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+86	34.5%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+66	27.0%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+55	211.5%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+52	54.2%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-1	+42	0.4%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	+41	7.4%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+8	18.2%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	0	0.0%
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-19	-23.8%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	0	-50	-14.3%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-51	-35.2%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	-175	-41.2%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-271	-12.8%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+2	-741	-43.8%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	-26	-2,382	-68.4%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
	Totals:	-14	+15,069	+23.1%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 144,053; in 2000 it was 196,629. The total population changed 36.5%. The adherent totals for 1990 (73,017) represent 50.7% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (83,126) include 42.3% 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 65,258 adherents in 1990 and 80,327 adherents in 2000, for a change of 23.1%

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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