Burlington, NC, Metropolitan Statistical Area

Religious Traditions, 2010

33,181	3,453	22,314	109	3,068	1,368	87,638
Evangelical Protestant	Black Protestant	Mainline Protestant	Orthodox	Catholic	Other	Unclaimed

Congregational adherents include all full members, their children, and others who regularly attend services. The 2010 reports contain incomplete counts of congregations and adherents belonging to the eight largest historically African-American denominations. These denominations are not included in the 2000 reports and are largely missing from the 1990 and 1980 reports.
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Reports

Religious Bodies	Tradition	Family	Congregations	Adherents	Adherence Rate^†
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	Baptist	46	15,808	104.6
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	Methodist/Pietist	26	11,901	78.7
Non-denominational	Evangelical Protestant	----	40	11,320	74.9
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	17	4,195	27.8
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	12	3,804	25.2
Catholic Church	Catholic	Catholicism	1	3,068	20.3
African Methodist Episcopal Church	Black Protestant	Methodist/Pietist	14	2,414	16.0
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other	Latter-day Saints	4	1,329	8.8
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	3	1,082	7.2
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	Lutheran	3	1,068	7.1
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	6	917	6.1
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	2	795	5.3
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	Episcopalianism/Anglicanism	2	725	4.8
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	6	615	4.1
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	Holiness	4	598	4.0
Friends United Meeting *	Mainline Protestant	European Free-Church	3	544	3.6
National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.	Black Protestant	Baptist	2	489	3.2
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	Adventist	3	324	2.1
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	2	281	1.9
Salvation Army	Evangelical Protestant	Holiness	1	281	1.9
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	Baptist	4	275	1.8
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	Holiness	5	252	1.7
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	4	220	1.5
Church of God in Christ	Black Protestant	Pentecostal	1	214	1.4
Progressive National Baptist Convention, Inc.	Black Protestant	Baptist	1	214	1.4
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Black Protestant	Methodist/Pietist	1	122	0.8
Evangelical Friends Church International*	Evangelical Protestant	European Free-Church	2	115	0.8
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	Baptist	1	104	0.7
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	1	98	0.6
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox)	1	95	0.6
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	Lutheran	1	70	0.5
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	1	43	0.3
Bahá'í	Other	Other Groups	2	39	0.3
Friends General Conference and Friends United Meeting, dually aligned meetings*	Mainline Protestant	European Free-Church	1	34	0.2
Conservative Yearly Meetings of Friends*	Evangelical Protestant	European Free-Church	1	26	0.2
Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia	Orthodox	Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox)	1	14	0.1
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	Baptist	2	0	---
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	Ind. Fundamentalist	1	---	---
Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith, Inc.	Black Protestant	Pentecostal	1	---	---
Evangelical Association of Reformed, and Congregational Christian Churches	Evangelical Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	2	---	---
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	Methodist/Pietist	1	---	---
Jehovah's Witnesses	Other	Adventist	2	---	---
Reformed Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	Baptist	2	---	---
Reformed Presbyterian Church in the United States	Evangelical Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	1	---	---
Unaffiliated Friends Meetings*	Mainline Protestant	European Free-Church	1	---	---
United Holy Church of America, Inc.	Black Protestant	Pentecostal	1	---	---
		Totals:	239	63,493

The population of the Burlington, NC, Metropolitan Statistical Area was 151,131 in 2010; in 2000 it was 130,800. The total population changed 15.5%. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (63,493) included 42.0% of the total population in 2010.

Burlington, NC, Metropolitan Statistical Area includes Alamance County, North Carolina.

^* In an effort to better match the ASARB standards for adherents, a few religious bodies changed the way their adherents were reported in 2010, including the Catholic Church, Amish groups, Friends groups, Jewish groups, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Non-denominational Christian Churches, and the United Methodist Church. This change does not affect any of the data in the newly released 2010 U.S. Religion Census: Religious Congregations & Membership Study. In fact, the data for these groups are now more comparable to that of other bodies than it was in previous decadal reports.

However, the change in methodology can distort assessments on growth or decline between 2000 and 2010 for each of these groups. County-level 2000 data using the new methodology are not readily available. ASARB staff has adjusted some 2000 county-level adherent statistics to allow for a more accurate picture on growth or decline. The revised maps and charts are now available on-line at www.usreligioncensus.org for those who are interested in these trends.

Source

2010 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and include statistics for 236 religious groups, providing information on the number of their congregations and adherents within each state and county in the United States. Clifford Grammich, Kirk Hadaway, Richard Houseal, Dale E. Jones, Alexei Krindatch, Richie Stanley and Richard H. Taylor supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in 2010 U.S. Religion Census: Religious Congregations & Membership Study, published by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). [More information on the data collection]

^†The adherence rate provides the number of adherents of a particular group per 1,000 population. For example, in 2010 the Episcopal Church had an adherence rate of 7.6 in Autauga County, Alabama. This means that about 8 out of every 1,000 people in Autauga County were Episcopalian.