Snapshot

	1990	2000	Growth/Decline
Congregations	2,336	2,286	-50 (-2.1%)
Adherents	232,876	238,609	+5,733 (2.5%)

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

Membership Data [Download .csv Data]

Year	Clergy	Congregations	Members
1933	-	1,201	81,709
1935	1,920	1,326	82,529
1937	-	1,351	82,990
1940	-	1,428	74,497
1942	-	1,412	83,875
1946	-	-	93,325
1947	-	1,665	92,604
1950	2,455	1,964	107,094
1951	2,315	1,904	100,814
1952	2,400	1,989	111,011
1953	2,600	2,051	113,698
1954	2,535	2,089	118,696
1955	2,702	2,146	123,523
1956	2,711	2,195	127,395
1957	2,646	2,210	131,420
1958	2,634	2,234	133,214
1959	2,668	2,244	135,294
1960	2,752	2,278	142,796
1961	2,735	2,292	142,823
1962	2,763	2,289	145,241
1963	2,701	2,274	144,145
1964	2,745	2,276	143,725
1965	2,705	2,287	143,231
1966	2,780	2,261	143,364
1967	2,753	2,247	144,243
1968	2,767	2,265	146,807
1969	2,763	2,267	147,752
1970	2,793	2,282	150,198
1971	3,352	4,095	152,787
1972	2,906	2,261	155,920
1973	2,866	2,235	157,828
1974	2,905	2,239	161,401
1975	2,987	2,251	166,259
1976	2,951	2,270	170,285
1977	3,022	2,274	171,947
1978	2,924	2,264	173,753
1979	3,018	2,259	175,113
1980	3,025	2,271	176,429
1981	3,072	2,275	178,581
1982	3,186	2,275	184,685
1983	3,229	2,286	182,190
1984	3,192	2,271	185,404
1985	3,227	2,291	185,593
1986	3,313	2,296	188,662
1987	3,238	2,314	198,552
1988	3,315	2,336	198,842
1989	3,410	2,338	199,786
1990	3,504	2,339	205,884
1992	3,576	2,330	214,743
1993	3,563	2,314	216,117
1995	4,271	2,307	224,061
1996	4,630	2,327	229,240
1997	4,123	2,347	229,302
1998	5,468	2,353	234,311
2002	6,114	2,290	247,007
2004	6,064	2,240	252,419
2006	5,974	2,215	249,845
2007	5,992	2,248	252,905
2008	5,992	2,248	252,905

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]