Baltimore County, Maryland

Denominational Groups, 2000

50,412	67,366	1,757	181,212	47,154	406,391
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
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	+2	+864	139.1%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	-11	-3,241	-58.0%
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+5	20.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+16,993	10.3%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+407	866.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	+3	+543	517.1%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-3	+373	66.4%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-67	-26.8%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+2,223	166.5%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	0	+20	55.6%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+2	-835	-38.7%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+200	76.6%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	+188	61.4%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-1,887	-72.4%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	-1	-564	-5.1%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	-1	-2,171	-11.5%
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+9	3.2%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	-1	+64	98.5%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	-2	+5,845	129.7%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+536	114.0%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+10	-10,701	-22.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-1,456	-21.4%
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	0	-31	-22.6%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	+2	+3	0.2%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+915	35.6%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+1,122	265.9%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+321	53.5%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+10	+1,172	7.2%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	-2	-430	-49.7%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	+1	-575	-21.1%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-6	-7,332	-17.7%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-60	-28.6%
	Totals:	+11	+2,453	+.7%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 692,134; in 2000 it was 754,292. The total population changed 9.0%. The adherent totals for 1990 (364,351) represent 52.6% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (347,901) include 46.1% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 32 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 32 groups had 335,792 adherents in 1990 and 338,245 adherents in 2000, for a change of .7%

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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