Choctaw County, Alabama

Denominational Groups, 2000

6,854	1,136		105	126	7,701
Evangelical Protestant	Mainline Protestant	Orthodox	Catholic	Other	Unclaimed

Congregational "adherents" include all full members, their children, and others who regularly attend services. The historically African American denominations are not included in the 2000 congregation and membership totals. Many are also missing in 1990 and most historically African American denominations are missing in the 1980 reports.
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Reports

Religious Bodies	Theology	Congregations	Adherents	Adherence Rate^†
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	30	5,014	313.0
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	21	1,303	81.4
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	10	873	54.5
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,700	106.1
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	145	9.1
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	2	175	10.9
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	38	2.4
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	28	1.8
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	1	24	1.5
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	1	15	0.9
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	50	3.1
Catholic Church	Catholic	1	160	10.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	55	3.4
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	115	7.2
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	3,719	232.2
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	77	13,414

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 16,018. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (13,414) include 83.7% of the total population in 1990.

Source

The 1990 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and include statistics for 132 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Martin B. Bradley, Norman M. Green, Jr., Dale E. Jones, Mac Lynn, and Lou McNeil supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1990, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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^†The adherence rate provides the number of adherents of a particular group per 1,000 population. For example, in 2000 the Episcopal Church had an adherence rate of approximately 8 (8.1) in Autauga County, Alabama. This means that 8 out of every 1,000 people in Autauga County are Episcopalian.