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	+13,172	1109.0%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+471	444.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+239	249.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+259	196.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+1	+1,276	158.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+338	133.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+1	+454	131.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	+2,354	125.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+444	76.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+42	40.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+18	+11,051	39.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+87	39.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	+484	35.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-2	+2,494	30.0%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+202	22.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-6	-6.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-89	-62.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-94	-64.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+590	n.a.
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+61	n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+300	n.a.
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+81	n.a.
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+1	+250	n.a.
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+16	+952	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	+1	+282	n.a.
	Totals:	57	+35,694	+79.5%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 101,419; in 2000 it was 196,629. The total population changed 36.5%. The adherent totals for 1980 (45,065) represent 44.4% of the 1980 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 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 25 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 25 groups had 44,915 adherents in 1980 and 80,609 adherents in 2000, for a change of 79.5%

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 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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