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	% Change
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+235	53.9%
Catholic Church	Catholic	-1	+9,463	164.8%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-23	-9.1%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	-69	-11.1%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+169	139.7%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+255	19.9%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	0	+20	15.4%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	-2	-347	-26.9%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	-144	-44.4%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+42	9.6%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	+1	+1,341	34.2%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+1	+678	28.1%
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+367	23.6%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	0	+22	64.7%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+275	50.5%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	+700	140.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+59	39.1%
Moravian Church in America--Southern Province	Mainline Protestant	0	-27	-15.4%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+350	1400.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-1	+275	3.9%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	0	-44	-53.7%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+99	48.5%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+51	6.7%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+3,003	8.2%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+102	89.5%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	-40	-27.8%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	+1	+3,330	30.4%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+236	268.2%
	Totals:	+9	+20,378	+26.8%

The population of these 2 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 171,269; in 2000 it was 233,450. The total population changed 36.3%. The adherent totals for 1990 (101,342) represent 59.2% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (99,293) include 42.5% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 28 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 28 groups had 76,020 adherents in 1990 and 96,398 adherents in 2000, for a change of 26.8%

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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