Rocky Mount, NC MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

38,940	14,517		3,701	821	85,047
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
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+851	370.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	+113	297.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+2,761	294.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+102	87.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+63	81.0%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+749	61.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	-2	+891	48.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	+115	37.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-3	+535	6.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+1,417	5.0%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	-9	-10.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-512	-22.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	-718	-23.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-324	-46.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-5	-1,093	-54.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	-1	-243	-54.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+208	n.a.
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+48	n.a.
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+657	n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+75	n.a.
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+228	n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+623	n.a.
	Totals:	11	+6,537	+13.4%

The population of these 2 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 123,141; in 2000 it was 143,026. The total population changed 7.3%. The adherent totals for 1980 (52,476) represent 42.6% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (57,979) include 40.5% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 22 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 22 groups had 48,769 adherents in 1980 and 55,306 adherents in 2000, for a change of 13.4%

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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