Orange County, Indiana

Denominational Groups, 2000

4,954	3,539		587		10,226
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	5	1,719	93.4
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	25	1.4
Catholic Church	Catholic	2	550	29.9
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	2	225	12.2
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	9	2,380	129.3
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	1	109	5.9
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	3	413	22.4
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	8	439	23.9
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	4	350	19.0
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	2	226	12.3
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	150	8.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	1	112	6.1
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	64	3.5
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	1	470	25.5
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	13	1,581	85.9
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	292	15.9
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	58	9,105

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 18,409. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (9,105) include 49.5% 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.