Rush County, Indiana

Denominational Groups, 2000

3,655	3,731		1,784	2	9,089
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^†
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	9	2,158	119.0
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	7	1,448	79.9
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	7	1,424	78.6
Catholic Church	Catholic	1	1,344	74.1
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	2	703	38.8
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	1	632	34.9
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	2	401	22.1
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	350	19.3
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	300	16.6
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	2	235	13.0
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	3	188	10.4
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	1	150	8.3
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	105	5.8
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	69	3.8
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	45	2.5
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	31	1.7
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	1	26	1.4
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	46	9,609

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 18,129. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (9,609) include 53.0% 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.