Howard County, Maryland

Denominational Groups, 2000

14,359	26,629	409	66,119	14,774	125,552
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	+3	+46,070	230.0%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+3	+9,237	1211.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	+4	+4,654	62.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+12	+3,769	104.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+4	+3,174	110.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	-2	+1,575	43.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+3	+1,090	103.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+1,009	186.0%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+1,000	n.a.
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+666	132.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+563	188.0%
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+508	716.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	+1	+429	572.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-1	+335	17.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	+181	35.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+163	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	+1	+159	n.a.
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+147	1470.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+59	n.a.
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	-12	-11.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	-12	-15.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	0	-13	-3.0%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-17	-13.0%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	0	-31	-44.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-143	-36.0%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	0	-526	-81.0%
	Totals:	+38	+74,034	+162.9%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 118,572; in 2000 it was 247,842. The total population changed 32.3%. The adherent totals for 1980 (45,457) represent 38.3% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (122,290) include 49.3% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 26 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 26 groups had 45,457 adherents in 1980 and 119,491 adherents in 2000, for a change of 162.9%

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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