De Kalb County, Alabama

Denominational Groups, 2000

33,802	4,569		284	3	25,794
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	% Change
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+10	+5,105	24.0%
Duck River and Kindred Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	+22	+3,323	n.a.
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+871	65.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+220	n.a.
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+172	154.0%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+168	n.a.
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+141	n.a.
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+137	n.a.
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	+113	69.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+82	65.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+64	427.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+62	n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	+1	+28	24.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-193	-25.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-5	-816	-16.0%
	Totals:	+42	+9,477	+32.8%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 53,658; in 2000 it was 64,452. The total population changed 17.9%. The adherent totals for 1980 (29,120) represent 54.3% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (38,658) include 60.0% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 15 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 15 groups had 28,917 adherents in 1980 and 38,394 adherents in 2000, for a change of 32.8%

Sources

The 2000 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and includes statistics for 149 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Dale E. Jones, Sherri Doty, Clifford Grammich, James E. Horsch, Richard Houseal, Mac Lynn, John P. Marcum, Kenneth M. Sanchagrin and Richard H. Taylor supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States, 2000, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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