Jerome County, Idaho

Denominational Groups, 2000

1,466	950		3,500	3,896	8,530
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 Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	0	-13	-5.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-170	-43.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+2,820	415.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	-82	-38.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-111	-62.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+2	+734	23.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	-43	-27.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-36	-44.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+130	n.a.
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+177	32.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+55	n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	-52	-12.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-67	-58.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	-265	-64.0%
	Totals:	+3	+3,077	+46.3%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 14,840; in 2000 it was 18,342. The total population changed 21.2%. The adherent totals for 1980 (6,740) represent 45.4% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (9,812) include 53.5% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 14 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 14 groups had 6,641 adherents in 1980 and 9,718 adherents in 2000, for a change of 46.3%

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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