Greenville, NC, Metropolitan Statistical Area

Religious Traditions, 2010

36,334	2,712	23,029	50	5,489	1,855	98,679
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^†
Non-denominational	Evangelical Protestant	----	44	16,917	100.6
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	Baptist	23	6,746	40.1
Convention of Original Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	Baptist	21	3,138	18.7
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	Baptist	19	2,514	15.0
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	19	2,288	13.6
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	Methodist/Pietist	15	16,530	98.3
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	Baptist	13	1,801	10.7
United Holy Church of America, Inc.	Black Protestant	Pentecostal	11	---	---
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Black Protestant	Methodist/Pietist	8	1,246	7.4
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	7	1,188	7.1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	7	1,694	10.1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	Baptist	6	1,167	6.9
Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith, Inc.	Black Protestant	Pentecostal	5	---	---
National Missionary Baptist Convention, Inc.	Black Protestant	Baptist	5	1,235	7.3
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	Episcopalianism/Anglicanism	4	1,435	8.5
Catholic Church	Catholic	Catholicism	3	5,489	32.6
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other	Latter-day Saints	3	1,003	6.0
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	Baptist	3	270	1.6
Jehovah's Witnesses	Other	Adventist	3	---	---
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	Adventist	3	491	2.9
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	2	1,224	7.3
Foursquare Gospel, International Church of the	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	2	84	0.5
Muslim Estimate	Other	Other Groups	2	350	2.1
United Pentecostal Church International	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	2	---	---
African Methodist Episcopal Church	Black Protestant	Methodist/Pietist	1	49	0.3
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	Baptist	1	729	4.3
Buddhism, Vajrayana	Other	Other Groups	1	71	0.4
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	Adventist	1	---	---
Church of God in Christ	Black Protestant	Pentecostal	1	182	1.1
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite	Evangelical Protestant	European Free-Church	1	163	1.0
Conservative Yearly Meetings of Friends*	Evangelical Protestant	European Free-Church	1	9	0.1
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	Lutheran	1	127	0.8
Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship	Black Protestant	Baptist	1	---	---
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox)	1	50	0.3
Hindu, Traditional Temples	Other	Other Groups	1	50	0.3
International Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	Baptist	1	5	0.0
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	Lutheran	1	0	---
Pentecostal Free Will Baptist Church, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	1	---	---
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	1	495	2.9
Salvation Army	Evangelical Protestant	Holiness	1	289	1.7
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other	Liberal	1	125	0.7
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	Holiness	1	59	0.4
Bahá'í	Other	Other Groups	0	122	0.7
Conservative Judaism	Other	Judaism	0	65	0.4
Reform Judaism	Other	Judaism	0	65	0.4
Zoroastrian	Other	Other Groups	0	4	0.0
		Totals:	248	69,469

The population of the Greenville, NC, Metropolitan Statistical Area was 168,148 in 2010; in 2000 it was 133,798. The total population changed 25.7%. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (69,469) included 41.3% of the total population in 2010.

Greenville, NC, Metropolitan Statistical Area includes Pitt 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.