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
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+1	+1,091	1001.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	+1	+11,495	310.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+218	303.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+113	110.0%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+388	90.0%
Moravian Church in America--Southern Province	Mainline Protestant	0	+69	87.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+311	86.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+130	75.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+585	61.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+76	57.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+3	+1,036	50.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	+1	+4,333	44.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+70	44.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+7	+9,783	33.0%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+9	31.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+94	13.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-1	+744	11.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	+27	5.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-23	-5.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	-1	-106	-10.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	-46	-20.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	+1	-47	-31.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	-62	-11,823	-69.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+150	n.a.
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+1,922	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	+1	+939	n.a.
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+324	n.a.
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+375	n.a.
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	+1	+56	n.a.
	Totals:	+-30	+22,293	+29.7%

The population of these 2 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 139,248; in 2000 it was 233,450. The total population changed 36.3%. The adherent totals for 1980 (88,987) represent 63.9% of the 1980 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 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 29 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 29 groups had 75,044 adherents in 1980 and 97,337 adherents in 2000, for a change of 29.7%

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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