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Halifax County, North Carolina - County Membership Report (2020)

Exact definitions of "congregations" and "adherents" vary by religious body. Congregations may be parishes, churches, synagogues, mosques, temples, or another site where a religious body has regularly scheduled worship services. Adherents generally are members, children who are not members, and others who are not members but are considered participants in the congregation.

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Religious Bodies Tradition Family Congregations Adherents Adherence Rate
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant Baptist Family 33 5,894 121.22
Non-denominational Christian Churches Evangelical Protestant Other Groups Family 17 4,020 82.68
United Methodist Church Mainline Protestant Methodist Family 17 3,499 71.96
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant Restorationists Family 6 1,352 27.81
National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. Black Protestant Baptist Family 3 1,298 26.70
National Baptist Convention of America International, Inc. Black Protestant Baptist Family 1 1,200 24.68
Jehovah's Witnesses Jehovah's Witnesses Adventist Family 3 708 14.56
National Missionary Baptist Convention of America Black Protestant Baptist Family 3 640 13.16
Catholic Church Catholic Catholic Liturgical Family 2 534 10.98
African Methodist Episcopal Church Black Protestant Methodist Family 3 504 10.37
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Latter-day Saints Latter-day Saints (Mormonism) Family 1 490 10.08
United Holy Church of America Black Protestant Pentecostal Family 4 249 5.12
Church of God in Christ Black Protestant Pentecostal Family 2 240 4.94
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant Anglican/Episcopal Family 5 223 4.59
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant Presbyterian/Reformed Family 4 203 4.18
Convention of Original Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant Baptist Family 2 123 2.53
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant Pentecostal Family 3 103 2.12
Assemblies of God, General Council of the Evangelical Protestant Pentecostal Family 1 100 2.06
Church of our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith, Inc. Black Protestant Pentecostal Family 1 100 2.06
American Baptist Churches in the U.S.A. Mainline Protestant Baptist Family 1 72 1.48
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant Baptist Family 1 69 1.42
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant Adventist Family 1 57 1.17
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant Restorationists Family 2 45 0.93
Baha'i Faith Other Other Groups Family 0 8 0.16
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant Pentecostal Family 1
United Pentecostal Church International Evangelical Protestant Pentecostal Family 1
           

Religious Traditions (1980 - 2020), Percent of Population


The population of this county was 48,622 in 2020. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (21,731) included 44.7% of the total population in 2020. The adherence rate is the number of adherents of a given group per 1,000 people in the general population.

Note that data collection methods for religious bodies change over time, affecting the comparability of statistics. For further information, see the U.S. Religion Census website at https://www.usreligioncensus.org/.

The 2020 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and include data for 372 religious bodies or groups. Of these, the ASARB was able to gather data on congregations and adherents for 217 and on congregations only for 155.

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