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Surry 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 72 21,408 300.00
Catholic Church Catholic Catholic Liturgical Family 2 5,065 70.98
Non-denominational Christian Churches Evangelical Protestant Other Groups Family 16 4,860 68.11
United Methodist Church Mainline Protestant Methodist Family 19 2,751 38.55
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Latter-day Saints Latter-day Saints (Mormonism) Family 4 1,960 27.47
National Missionary Baptist Convention of America Black Protestant Baptist Family 8 1,950 27.33
Wesleyan Church Evangelical Protestant Holiness Family 4 745 10.44
Jehovah's Witnesses Jehovah's Witnesses Adventist Family 3 714 10.01
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant Presbyterian/Reformed Family 6 632 8.86
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant Restorationists Family 3 447 6.26
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant Friends/Brethren Family 2 293 4.11
Moravian Church in America (Unitas Fratrum), Southern Province Mainline Protestant 1 228 3.20
Full Gospel Christian Assemblies International Evangelical Protestant Pentecostal Family 1 180 2.52
Friends United Meeting Mainline Protestant Friends/Brethren Family 5 180 2.52
Primitive Baptists Associations Evangelical Protestant Baptist Family 2 164 2.30
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant Restorationists Family 3 163 2.28
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant Anglican/Episcopal Family 2 161 2.26
Christian Methodist Episcopal Church Black Protestant Methodist Family 1 160 2.24
Assemblies of God, General Council of the Evangelical Protestant Pentecostal Family 2 104 1.46
Salvation Army Evangelical Protestant Holiness Family 1 101 1.42
African Methodist Episcopal Church Black Protestant Methodist Family 1 100 1.40
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant Pentecostal Family 4 94 1.32
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant Pentecostal Family 1 80 1.12
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant Lutheran Family 1 34 0.48
Baha'i Faith Other Other Groups Family 0 25 0.35
Solid Rock Association of Old Time Baptists. Evangelical Protestant Baptist Family 1 24 0.34
United Holy Church of America Black Protestant Pentecostal Family 1 10 0.14
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant Restorationists Family 1 0 0.00
Orthodox Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant Presbyterian/Reformed Family 1
Evangelical Presbyterian Church (1981) Evangelical Protestant Presbyterian/Reformed Family 1
United Pentecostal Church International Evangelical Protestant Pentecostal Family 1
           

Religious Traditions (1980 - 2020), Percent of Population


The population of this county was 71,359 in 2020. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (42,633) included 59.7% 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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