Cross County, Arkansas

Denominational Groups, 2000

13,286	1,824		711	1	3,704
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^†
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	348	17.0
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,004	49.1
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	3	458	22.4
Catholic Church	Catholic	1	460	22.5
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	79	3.9
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	4	623	30.5
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	1	22	1.1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	2	311	15.2
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	14	5,703	279.1
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	9	2,443	119.6
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	49	11,451

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 20,434. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (11,451) include 56.0% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

^†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.