Snapshot

	1990	2000	Growth/Decline
Congregations	55	59	+4 (7.3%)
Adherents	21,269	19,764	-1,505 (-7.1%)

Year-by-Year (Click on a point to see data)

Membership Data [Download .csv Data]

Year	Clergy	Congregations	Members
1967	60	49	22,373
1968	58	49	22,732
1969	57	49	22,333
1970	58	50	22,357
1971	58	49	22,784
1972	60	49	22,784
1974	61	51	21,549
1975	67	51	21,467
1976	70	50	21,288
1977	70	50	20,957
1978	72	52	21,002
1979	69	53	21,058
1980	78	53	21,057
1981	77	55	21,233
1982	81	56	21,618
1983	81	55	21,726
1984	85	56	21,516
1985	85	56	21,714
1986	83	56	21,722
1987	83	55	21,675
1988	87	54	21,467
1989	89	55	21,341
1991	95	56	21,513

Notes

Snapshot

Data are from Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990 and Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Copyright © 2002, Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). All rights reserved. Published by Glenmary Research Center, 1312 Fifth Ave., North, Nashville, TN 37208. www.glenmary.org.

Year-by-Year

Data were taken from the National Council of Churches' Historic Archive CD and recent editions of the Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches. Denomination descriptions provided by Dr. J. Gordon Melton, Director, Institute for the Study of American Religion (ISAR). [More information on data sources]