Crawford County, Arkansas

Denominational Groups, 2000

23,147	3,237		1,359	442	25,062
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^†
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	16	3,893	91.6
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	130	3.1
Catholic Church	Catholic	1	520	12.2
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	51	1.2
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	3	269	6.3
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	1	67	1.6
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	365	8.6
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	2	413	9.7
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	10	820	19.3
Churches of God, General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	28	0.7
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	1	169	4.0
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	39	0.9
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	48	1.1
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	59	1.4
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	15	1,660	39.1
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	7	480	11.3
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	3	578	13.6
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	18	11,070	260.5
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	10	1,964	46.2
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	94	22,623

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 42,493. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (22,623) include 53.2% 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.