Talbot County, Maryland

Denominational Groups, 2000

3,078	7,544		5,300	111	17,779
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
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	-5	-33.3%
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+2,794	111.5%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+271	53.6%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	0	-2	-0.5%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	+3	1.5%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-466	-16.2%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+136	34.1%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	0	-32	-20.3%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-100	-20.2%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	+30	8.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+43	5.6%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+37	54.4%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-7	-285	-6.6%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+282	142.4%
	Totals:	-7	+2,706	+20.4%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 30,549; in 2000 it was 33,812. The total population changed 10.7%. The adherent totals for 1990 (14,837) represent 48.6% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (16,033) include 47.4% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 14 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 14 groups had 13,297 adherents in 1990 and 16,003 adherents in 2000, for a change of 20.4%

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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