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Lenoir 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
Non-denominational Christian Churches Evangelical Protestant Other Groups Family 31 11,840 214.80
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant Baptist Family 18 3,936 71.41
United Methodist Church Mainline Protestant Methodist Family 12 2,164 39.26
Convention of Original Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant Baptist Family 13 1,795 32.56
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant Pentecostal Family 4 1,676 30.41
Catholic Church Catholic Catholic Liturgical Family 1 1,357 24.62
National Missionary Baptist Convention of America Black Protestant Baptist Family 7 1,298 23.55
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant Restorationists Family 20 1,128 20.46
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Latter-day Saints Latter-day Saints (Mormonism) Family 2 980 17.78
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Black Protestant Methodist Family 6 910 16.51
United Holy Church of America Black Protestant Pentecostal Family 10 590 10.70
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant Anglican/Episcopal Family 3 448 8.13
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant Presbyterian/Reformed Family 3 356 6.46
Jehovah's Witnesses Jehovah's Witnesses Adventist Family 1 342 6.20
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant Baptist Family 3 210 3.81
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant Adventist Family 2 145 2.63
Assemblies of God, General Council of the Evangelical Protestant Pentecostal Family 2 138 2.50
Church of God in Christ Black Protestant Pentecostal Family 1 120 2.18
Baha'i Faith Other Other Groups Family 0 105 1.90
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS) Evangelical Protestant Lutheran Family 1 104 1.89
African Methodist Episcopal Church Black Protestant Methodist Family 1 100 1.81
Salvation Army Evangelical Protestant Holiness Family 1 48 0.87
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant Lutheran Family 1 46 0.83
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant Restorationists Family 1 35 0.63
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant Congregationalists (United Church of Christ) Family 1 14 0.25
Pentecostal Free Will Baptist Church, Inc. 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 55,122 in 2020. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (29,885) included 54.2% 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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