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Adams County, Illinois

Denominational Groups, 2000

10,837 13,160   15,933 737 27,610
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
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 18 4,601 69.6
Catholic Church Catholic 12 17,492 264.7
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 10 3,589 54.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 8 2,677 40.5
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 7 3,670 55.5
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 6 1,411 21.4
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 5 2,701 40.9
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 4 1,108 16.8
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 4 1,343 20.3
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 3 643 9.7
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 3 921 13.9
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 2 133 2.0
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 1 177 2.7
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 1 422 6.4
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 18 0.3
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 1 n.a. n.a.
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 77 1.2
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 67 1.0
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 1 36 0.5
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 380 5.8
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 1 125 1.9
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 1 408 6.2
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant 1 76 1.2
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 425 6.4
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 106 1.6
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 80 1.2
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 425 6.4
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 96 43,111  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 66,090. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (43,111) include 65.2% 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.