Adams County, Indiana

Denominational Groups, 2000

11,548	4,703		4,810		12,564
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
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	+20	+387	17.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	+1	+21	n.a.
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+76	109.0%
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+42	n.a.
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+46	124.0%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+80	n.a.
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+1,062	28.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-97	-18.0%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	0	+83	26.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	0	+82	37.0%
Evangelical Mennonite Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-139	-40.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+255	7.0%
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+123	14.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	-23	-12.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	+60	8.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-1	-564	-27.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-130	-38.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-2	-906	-25.0%
	Totals:	+20	458	+2.4%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 29,619; in 2000 it was 33,625. The total population changed 8.1%. The adherent totals for 1980 (19,191) represent 64.8% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (21,061) include 62.6% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 18 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 18 groups had 19,080 adherents in 1980 and 19,538 adherents in 2000, for a change of 2.4%

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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