Top 15 Reporting Religious Bodies Fayetteville, NC
Church, Christian, or Religious Body	Adherents (and rank)						Congregations
	in 2000			in 1990			in 2000	in 1990
Southern Baptist Convention	35,499	(1)		33,407	(1)		68	66
United Methodist Church, The	15,214	(2)		13,522	(4)		28	28
Catholic Church, The	9,182	(3)		6,266	(6)		5	5
Independent, Charismatic Churches	7,750	(4)		1,125	(14)		3	2
Presbyterian Church (USA)	6,914	(5)		6,841	(5)		26	27
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	6,816	(6)		5,340	(7)		9	11
American Baptist Churches in the USA	5,153	(7)		2,069	(9)		1	1
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	4,545	(8)		3,774	(8)		19	20
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	2,366	(9)		1,940	(12)		6	4
Episcopal Church	1,834	(10)		1,993	(10)		6	6
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	1,425	(11)		1,950	(11)		3	3
Assemblies of God	1,381	(12)		1,308	(13)		9	7
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	1,229	(13)		690	(17)		2	2
Seventh-day Adventist Church	1,025	(14)		745	(16)		3	2
Churches of Christ	641	(15)		600	(18)		4	4

Metropolitan Population, 2000 Census:		302,963
Percent of Population Claimed by Reporting Groups:		34.8%

National Average: 50.2% claimed

Reporting Groups (149 possible):	41	(36 of 133 in 1990)
Total Reported Adherents:	105,444	(122,964 in 1990)
Total Reported Congregations:	231	(249 in 1990)

The metro area included 1 county (or equivalent) at the time of the 2000 census:
	Cumberland County, NC
	The newly published book Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000 includes a CD that allows users to determine such lists for any selected group of counties.
Source:	Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000 Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990
	Both studies, copyrighted by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies, are published by the Glenmary Research Center, Nashville, Tenn. More information is available at www.glenmary.org/grc.