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	844	48.8
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	2	192	11.1
Catholic Church	Catholic	5	1,587	91.8
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	1	386	22.3
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	1	94	5.4
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	92	5.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	4	1,371	79.3
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	8	1,473	85.2
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	33	1.9
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	1	96	5.6
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	7	2,057	119.0
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	34	8,225

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 17,290. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (8,225) include 47.6% 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.