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

Membership Data [Download .csv Data]

Year	Clergy	Congregations	Members
1925	18,598	26,455	4,516,806
1929	18,060	25,598	4,589,664
1931	-	-	4,135,775
1933	-	24,721	4,140,152
1935	15,741	24,485	4,345,108
1937	-	24,295	4,364,342

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]