Allegany County, Maryland

Denominational Groups, 2000

10,457	17,215		13,217	1,367	32,674
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
Catholic Church	Catholic	+2	+1,350	11.4%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+287	8.7%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+134	82.7%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	0	+116	1450.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+114	57.0%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+99	72.8%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	+75	11.1%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+63	13.1%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	-1	+10	3.8%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	0	+10	9.3%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+10	12.3%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+7	20.6%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	-7	-5.8%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-7	-3.3%
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-10	-5.1%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-28	-31.8%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	-30	-20.3%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-152	-16.9%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	-178	-22.1%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-269	-8.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-1	-355	-26.7%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-1	-372	-45.9%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	-1	-524	-33.3%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-616	-74.6%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-849	-23.5%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-4	-1,816	-13.8%
	Totals:	-5	-2,938	-6.6%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 74,946; in 2000 it was 74,930. The total population changed 0.0%. The adherent totals for 1990 (45,483) represent 60.7% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (42,256) include 56.4% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 26 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 26 groups had 44,430 adherents in 1990 and 41,492 adherents in 2000, for a change of -6.6%

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 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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