McLean County, Illinois

Denominational Groups, 2000

21,694	24,034		19,032	1,714	83,959
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^†
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	6	1,203	8.0
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	2	1,058	7.0
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,476	9.8
Bahá'í	Other Theology	1	73	0.5
Catholic Church	Catholic	10	19,032	126.5
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	51	0.3
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	12	3,725	24.8
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	9	5,591	37.2
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	3	291	1.9
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	1	116	0.8
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	2	838	5.6
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	2	353	2.4
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	5	515	3.4
Community of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	21	0.1
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	2	470	3.1
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	278	1.9
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	7	4,404	29.3
Evangelical Mennonite Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	218	1.5
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	72	0.5
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	1,400	9.3
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	1	205	1.4
International Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	174	1.2
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	1	500	3.3
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	8	5,600	37.2
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	4	809	5.4
New Testament Association of Independent Baptist Churches and other Fundamental Baptist Associations/Fellowships	Evangelical Protestant	3	826	5.5
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	10	3,929	26.1
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	270	1.8
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	316	2.1
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	73	0.5
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,724	11.5
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	303	2.0
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	3	509	3.4
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	24	9,794	65.1
Vineyard USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	145	1.0
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	112	0.7
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	139	66,474
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		76,613

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 129,180; in 2000 it was 150,433. The total population changed 16.5%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (66,474) include 44.2% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (76,613) include 50.9% of the population.

Source

^*The “Unadjusted Totals” come from the 1990 and 2000 data collected by representatives of the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). While quite comprehensive, this data excludes most of the historically African-American denominations and some other major groups. As a result, these numbers will be an underestimate of the total adherence rate, particularly in areas with a large African-American population. The 2000 data included 149 religious groups and the final results are published in Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Copyright © 2002, All rights reserved. The 1990 data included 132 groups and the final results are published in Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990 Copyright © 1990, All rights reserved. Published by Glenmary Research Center, 1312 Fifth Ave., North, Nashville, TN 37208. www.glenmary.org/grc [More information on the data collection]

^**The “Adjusted Totals” include all adherents in the denominations counted by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and estimates adherent totals for the historically African-American denominations and other religious groups not listed in the ASARB totals. An article by Roger Finke and Christopher P. Scheitle (2005) reviews how these estimates were computed.

^†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.

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