Wilmington, NC MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

49,450	30,980	939	15,205	2,719	134,157
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^†
Catholic Church	Catholic	8	5,742	33.5
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	6	587	3.4
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	20	12,984	75.8
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	4	436	2.6
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	11,421	66.7
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	254	1.5
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	200	1.2
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	121	0.7
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,284	7.5
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	3	130	0.8
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	1	324	1.9
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	5	438	2.6
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	1,555	9.1
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	5	545	3.2
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	151	0.9
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	25	0.2
Old Regular Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	15	0.1
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	82	0.5
Primitive Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	2	115	0.7
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	204	1.2
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	762	4.5
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	78	36,662	214.1
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	88	0.5
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	1	623	3.6
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	10	3,921	22.9
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	6	2,416	14.1
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	34	0.2
Moravian Church in America--Southern Province	Mainline Protestant	1	175	1.0
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	20	7,052	41.2
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	2	144	0.8
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	24	10,946	63.9
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	4	1,292	7.5
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	2	500	2.9
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	114	0.7
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	230	101,342

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 171,269. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (101,342) include 59.2% 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.