Mercer County, Illinois

Denominational Groups, 2000

764	5,222		2,586	3	8,382
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	2	840	43.6
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	2	170	8.8
Catholic Church	Catholic	5	1,109	57.5
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	1	307	15.9
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	1	168	8.7
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	1	82	4.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	5	1,716	89.0
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	80	4.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	10	2,418	125.4
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	40	2.1
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	1	49	2.5
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	8	2,492	129.2
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	38	9,471

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 19,286. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (9,471) include 49.1% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

^†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.