Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

214,750	157,319	2,100	79,249	24,429	710,094
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^†
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	269	147,135	172.0
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	142	68,334	79.9
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	62	24,422	28.6
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	49	9,910	11.6
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	38	22,829	26.7
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	36	3,890	4.6
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	33	1,440	1.7
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	31	5,120	6.0
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	24	13,598	15.9
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	24	3,184	3.7
Catholic Church	Catholic	22	34,182	40.0
Primitive Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	22	293	0.3
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	17	3,554	4.2
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	16	3,118	3.6
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	15	1,844	2.2
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	14	3,308	3.9
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	12	3,897	4.6
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	11	1,672	2.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	11	6,721	7.9
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	10	8,167	9.6
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	9	5,190	6.1
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,465	1.7
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	8	372	0.4
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,544	1.8
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	7	1,022	1.2
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	7	5,675	6.6
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	7	495	0.6
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	6	972	1.1
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,544	1.8
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,061	1.2
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	4	n.a.	n.a.
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	4	210	0.3
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,567	1.8
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	449	0.5
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	416	0.5
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	3	105	0.1
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	3	1,225	1.4
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	2	n.a.	n.a.
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	2	1,125	1.3
Moravian Church in America--Southern Province	Mainline Protestant	2	467	0.6
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	0	0.0
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	0	0.0
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	1	29	0.0
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	61	0.1
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	205	0.2
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	140	0.2
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	0	0.0
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	65,398	76.4
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	970	457,355

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 855,545. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (457,355) include 53.5% of the total population in 1990.

Source

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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^†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.