Gains in Church Membership in Various North Carolina Counties, May 1919

From The University of North Carolina News Letter, May 7, 1919

Church Membership Gains

Because of the lively interest of the church authorities of the state, we are giving in this week’s issue a list of the 75 counties that made gains in church membership between 1906 and 1916, the three counties that marked time during these 10 years, and the 12 counties that strangely lost ground and fell still further into arrears. The table shows the counties arranged in order from high to low according to the number of percents or points of gain or loss in church membership ratios, between 1906 and 1916.

Students of church affairs are reminded that this is the fourth article and table on North Carolina church membership in recent issues of the University News Letter. The others appear in Vol. V Nos. 14, 15, and 21. They can be had free of charge by addressing a postcard to the editor.

Moreover, we should be glad to have on our mailing list every one of the ministers in charge of the 10,000 churches in this state. We have long believed that none of our problems in life and business can safely be solved without the seership and leadership of the preachers and churches.

The News Letter goes weekly free of charge to anybody that writes for it.

May we add that we expect our readers to notify us promptly of changes in their post office addresses. It is a courtesy that will save our mailing clerk endless trouble. Without such notices the names are stricken from our mailing list.

Church Membership in Carolina

Ten-Year Gains and Losses, 1906 to 1916

Points mean percents of gain or loss between 1906 and 1916. In 1906 56 percent of our population 10 years old and over was on the church rolls. In 1916 the percent was 62, a gain of 6 points in 10 years.

Rank	Counties	Points Gained
Counties Moving Ahead
1	Caswell	26
2	Ashe, Forsyth	23
3	Richmond	22
4	Tyrrell, Iredell, Alleghany	20
5	Jones	19
6	Alexander, New Hanover, Buncombe	16
7	Graham	15
8	Polk, Wayne	14
9	Rowan, Person, Macon, Surry	13
10	Camden, Henderson, Cherokee	12
11	Wake, Durham, Montgomery, Carteret	11
12	Rutherford, Orange, Swain	10
13	Catawba, Columbus, Wilkes, Nash	9
14	Franklin, Bladen, Transylvania, Martin, Stokes, Edgecombe	8
15	Dare, Alamance, Gaston, Onslow, Haywood	7
16	Davidson, Stanly, Randolph, Yadkin, McDowell, Johnston, Rockingham	6
17	Scotland, Harnett	5
18	Bertie, Pasquotank, Lincoln, Cabarrus, Craven, Lenoir	4
19	Pender, Anson, Clay, Wilson	3
20	Chowan, Granville, Union, Madison, Pitt	2
21	Northampton, Gates, Currituck, Davie, Halifax, Guilford, Brunswick	1
Counties Marking Time
	Perquimans, Mecklenburg, Jackson	0
Counties Losing Ground
1	Vance	1
2	Warren, Pamlico, Sampson, Beaufort, Burke	2
3	Hertford, Cleveland	3
4	Greene	5
5	Hyde	6
6	Yancey	7

The following counties are omitted for lack of authoritative figures population figures due to the formation of new counties and the changes in territory of old counties since 1910: Avery, Hoke, Caldwell, Chatham, Cumberland, Lee, Mitchell, Moore, Robeson and Watauga.