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Ada County, Idaho

Denominational Groups, 2000

31,458 18,195 212 36,989 46,969 167,081
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
Catholic Church Catholic -1 +21,406 137.4%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +42 +13,076 40.2%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +1 +4,714 599.7%
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 0 +1,800 257.1%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +3 +1,158 36.7%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 +735 31.6%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology -1 +580 263.6%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +4 +577 24.3%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 0 +427 790.7%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 +337 15.9%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant +5 +309 45.5%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +1 +295 138.5%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 0 +279 12.1%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 0 +211 145.5%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 0 +143 2.5%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +68 41.2%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +53 3.2%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +1 +34 106.3%
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant +1 +33 45.2%
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 0 +17 7.3%
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant 0 +10 50.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +1 -7 -0.4%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 -48 -17.5%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -50 -40.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +1 -70 -11.1%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 0 -109 -14.3%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 0 -254 -78.4%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 0 -340 -14.6%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 0 -524 -21.3%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 0 -721 -43.6%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -9 -2,657 -46.6%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant -1 n.a. n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
  Totals: +48 +41,482 +47.7%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 205,775; in 2000 it was 300,904. The total population changed 46.2%. The adherent totals for 1990 (88,076) represent 42.8% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (133,823) include 44.5% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 31 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 31 groups had 86,982 adherents in 1990 and 128,464 adherents in 2000, for a change of 47.7%

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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