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