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	% Change
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+105	8.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+3,687	199.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+959	240.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-17	-20.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-2	-233	-68.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+16	19.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	+335	332.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	-161	-33.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+30	3.0%
Churches of God, General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+26	n.a.
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-19	-11.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+60	n.a.
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+17	+2,204	n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	+9	+797	n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-3	+203	41.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+3,245	39.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	+1	-152	-6.0%
	Totals:	+31	+11,085	+65.0%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 36,892; in 2000 it was 53,247. The total population changed 25.3%. The adherent totals for 1980 (17,043) represent 46.2% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (28,185) include 52.9% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 17 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 17 groups had 17,043 adherents in 1980 and 28,128 adherents in 2000, for a change of 65.0%

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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