The National Black Church Initiative’s (NBCI) Black Church Consumer Index Survey (BCCIS) is an innovative tool to track and analyze up-to-date data covering our membership’s interactions with the market place. BCCIS enables NBCI to better understand the behaviors and patterns corresponding to a wide array of products and issues across our 34,000 churches and 15.7 million members.

The Black church’s demographics span the entirety of the Black community – across age, ethnicity, geography, sex, gender, political persuasions and the like. Our surveys, dating back to the late 1990s, make NBCI a leader in African American consumer information and analytics.

Our methodology is simple and culturally relevant – we use five focused and pointed questions to get at the heart of how our congregants perceive and use market place, products and services. PhD students help us analyze responses in way that allows NBCI to understand disparities that exist between mainstream America and minority communities. Additional queries that arise from our initial surveys are addressed through additional questions that clarify data analyses.

NBCI is excited about BCCIS’ potential, especially its ability to help the auto industry understand the nuances of African American buying psyche. BCCIS will provide the auto industries with new and improved statistical data for educational and marketing purposes. The automobile for some black families is the most important and expensive purchase that they will make.

The success of BCCIS lays squarely trust and faith that its members have in their leaders. NBCI through BCCIS has broken through miscommunication and mistrust barriers affecting the African Americans. Many consumer researchers seek to find answers to desires and the unique understanding of African American consumer buying habits.

BCCIS will address this foundational mistrust and help reveal answers on how to overcome major psychological barriers that had, and are still having, devastating effects on African American consumerism. BCCIS hope to reveal a unique way measuring African American spending habits and how to affectively to them.

NBCI Faith Communities Demographics and Statistical Composition

NBCI has created a statistical analysis of its churches, locations and demographics

The South East Faith Command The West Faith Command The Mid-West Faith Command South West Faith Command Western Faith Command

16,830 Churches 8,502 Churches 3,047 Churches 3,265 Churches 2,356 Churches

THE NATIONAL BLACK CHURCH INITIATIVE DEMOGRAPHIC AND STATISTICAL COMPOSITION

Faith Command	No. of Churches	Age Range	Gender %		Race %
SOUTHEAST FAITH COMMAND Atlanta, GA A			Male	Female	Black	Hispanic
Florida
Tallahassee Miami West Palm Beach Fort Lauderdale	268 280 12 58	30-75 42-80 34-80 45-80	36% 35 39 35	64% 65 61 65	100 100 100 100
Georgia
Atlanta Savannah B	2,560 99	28-85 39-85	45 34	55 66	100 100
Louisiana
Baton Rouge New Orleans	600 356	45-85 46-85	34 35	66 65	100 100
Alabama
Birmingham Montgomery C	780 656	28-85 32-85	45 45	55 55	100 100
Arkansas
Little Rock	86	35-85	40	60	100
Tennessee
Memphis Nashville Chattanooga D	860 906 458	28-85 28-85 28-85	45 45 45	55 55 55	100 100 100
Kentucky
Louisville Lexington	362 198	35-85 35-85	38 38	62 62	100 100
Mississippi
Jackson E	1,807	24-85	41	59	100
North Carolina
Charlotte Winston-Salem Raleigh Durham Greensboro	450 346 462 241 250	25-85 25-85 25-85 25-85 25-85	45 45 45 45 45	55 55 55 55 55	100 100 100 100 100
South Carolina
Columbia Charleston F Washington, DC	838 682  1,609	29-85 29-85 45-85	40 40 40	60 60 60	100 100 100
Virginia
Richmond Northern-Virginia NORTHEAST FAITH COMMAND New York A	606 1,000	65-85 35-85	45 33	55 67	100 100		16,830
New York
New York City Albany	2,680 156	47-85 38-85	32 50	68 50	99 100	1
New Jersey
Newark Trenton B	680 692	45-85 45-85	31 31	69 69	100 100
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Pittsburgh C	1,001 500	38-85 43-85	35 35	65 65	100 100
Maryland
Baltimore Prince George's County D	1,008 985	28-85 28-85	45 45	55 55	100 100
Massachusetts
Boston	400	47-85	32	68	100
Connecticut
Hartford New Haven MIDWEST FAITH COMMAND Chicago A	200 200	38-85 38-85	38 38	62 62	100 100		8,502
Ohio
Columbus Cleveland Dayton Cincinnati B	162 289 316 186	47-85 47-85 47-85 47-85	32 32 32 32	68 68 68 68	100 100 100 100
Illinois
Chicago C	800	27-85	40	60	100
Kansas
Kansas City Topeka	89 69	38-85 38-85	38 38	62 62	100 100
Wisconsin
Milwaukee D	58	38-85	38	62	100
Michigan
Detroit E	969	38-85	38	62	100
Indiana
Indianapolis SOUTHWEST FAITH COMMAND Dallas A	109	38-85	38	62	100		3,047
Texas
Dallas Houston B Fort Worth San Antonio WEST FAITH COMMAND Oakland A	956 1,206 603 500	26-85 26-85 26-85 26-85	48 48 48 48	52 52 52 52	96 96 98 95	4 4 2 5	3,265
California
Oakland Los Angeles San Francisco	1,356 700 300	41-85 41-85 48-85	33 33 32	67 67 68	100 94 94	6 6	2,356
	34,000