De Kalb County, Illinois

Denominational Groups, 2000

8,844	16,016	171	17,079	1,107	45,752
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	+3,041	21.7%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	+504	96.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+370	14.3%
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+357	743.8%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+1	+230	64.2%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+160	141.6%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+100	58.8%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	0	+61	15.1%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	0	+55	458.3%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+18	7.5%
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+1	0.8%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-2	-2.1%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-1	-9	-0.3%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+1	-20	-10.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	-35	-12.7%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-51	-31.5%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	-103	-12.1%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	-109	-28.1%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	0	-115	-10.5%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-154	-27.3%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	-167	-63.0%
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	-172	-67.7%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	0	-194	-25.7%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-491	-7.9%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	-662	-87.3%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-2	-1,234	-19.9%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	0	n.a.	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
	Totals:	+1	+1,379	+3.5%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 77,932; in 2000 it was 88,969. The total population changed 14.2%. The adherent totals for 1990 (41,133) represent 52.8% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (43,217) include 48.6% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 26 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 26 groups had 39,832 adherents in 1990 and 41,211 adherents in 2000, for a change of 3.5%

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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