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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
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 +59 738.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +1 +825 404.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 0 +52 121.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +1 +249 74.0%
Evangelical Covenant Church, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +74 54.0%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 0 +89 34.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +1 +51 27.0%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 0 +79 20.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +435 17.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 -133 -2.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 0 -112 -4.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 0 -6 -5.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 0 -72 -7.0%
Catholic Church Catholic +1 -1,379 -8.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 0 -157 -17.0%
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -27 -18.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 -155 -27.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -2 -2,078 -29.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 0 -178 -39.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant -2 -486 -46.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 -97 -50.0%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -295 -52.0%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 0 -270 -77.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 -606 -86.0%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +1 +180 n.a.
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +270 n.a.
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant +1 +405 n.a.
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +258 n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +1 +171 n.a.
  Totals: +6 +-2,854 -6.4%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 74,624; in 2000 it was 88,969. The total population changed 14.2%. The adherent totals for 1980 (44,879) represent 60.1% of the 1980 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 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 29 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 29 groups had 44,796 adherents in 1980 and 41,942 adherents in 2000, for a change of -6.4%

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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