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Georgetown County, South 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 24 6,873 108.40
African Methodist Episcopal Church Black Protestant Methodist Family 23 6,720 105.99
United Methodist Church Mainline Protestant Methodist Family 18 6,433 101.46
Catholic Church Catholic Catholic Liturgical Family 2 5,762 90.88
Non-denominational Christian Churches Evangelical Protestant Other Groups Family 14 4,100 64.66
National Missionary Baptist Convention of America Black Protestant Baptist Family 6 1,750 27.60
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant Presbyterian/Reformed Family 4 1,071 16.89
Jehovah's Witnesses Jehovah's Witnesses Adventist Family 4 966 15.24
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant Pentecostal Family 6 935 14.75
Baha'i Faith Other Other Groups Family 1 619 9.76
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Latter-day Saints Latter-day Saints (Mormonism) Family 1 564 8.90
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant Restorationists Family 3 463 7.30
National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. Black Protestant Baptist Family 1 425 6.70
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant Anglican/Episcopal Family 1 420 6.62
National Baptist Convention of America International, Inc. Black Protestant Baptist Family 2 402 6.34
Assemblies of God, General Council of the Evangelical Protestant Pentecostal Family 3 360 5.68
Full Gospel Christian Assemblies International Evangelical Protestant Pentecostal Family 1 300 4.73
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant Lutheran Family 2 286 4.51
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant Baptist Family 2 226 3.56
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant Adventist Family 2 219 3.45
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant Holiness Family 3 126 1.99
Church of God in Christ Black Protestant Pentecostal Family 1 120 1.89
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant Presbyterian/Reformed Family 1 49 0.77
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant Holiness Family 1 24 0.38
Salvation Army Evangelical Protestant Holiness Family 1 8 0.13
Elim Fellowship Evangelical Protestant Pentecostal Family 1
United American Free Will Baptist Denomination, Inc. Black Protestant Baptist Family 1
Anglican Church in North America Evangelical Protestant Anglican/Episcopal Family 3
Southern Methodist Church Evangelical Protestant Methodist Family 1
           

Religious Traditions (1980 - 2020), Percent of Population


The population of this county was 63,404 in 2020. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (39,221) included 61.9% 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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