Baxter County, Arkansas

Denominational Groups, 2000

12,674	3,130		3,905	34	18,643
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	+2	+1,664	32.4%
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+905	30.2%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+249	185.8%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	+204	75.8%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+173	274.6%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	0	+150	23.1%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	+98	101.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+90	176.5%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+47	3.5%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-1	+38	9.6%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+23	1.8%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+17	47.2%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+14	7.5%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+6	5.6%
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	0	-4	-8.9%
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-6	-1.9%
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	0	-11	-39.3%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	-13	-35.1%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	-90	-5.2%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	-143	-48.6%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	-271	-26.8%
	Totals:	+3	+3,140	+19.4%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 31,186; in 2000 it was 38,386. The total population changed 23.1%. The adherent totals for 1990 (16,541) represent 53.0% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (19,743) include 51.4% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 21 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 21 groups had 16,221 adherents in 1990 and 19,361 adherents in 2000, for a change of 19.4%

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 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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