Baltimore County, Maryland

Denominational Groups, 2000

25,330	70,495	9,555	81,058	68,223	396,493
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^†
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	72	26,139	35.5
Catholic Church	Catholic	57	93,032	126.4
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	41	45,799	62.2
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	36	16,019	21.8
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	32	14,028	19.1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	29	12,115	16.5
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	24	5,727	7.8
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	17	13,704	18.6
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	14	3,627	4.9
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	14	3,208	4.4
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	12	2,054	2.8
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	11	4,675	6.4
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	9	1,322	1.8
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	8	2,536	3.5
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	5,817	7.9
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	4	n.a.	n.a.
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	4	405	0.6
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	4	674	0.9
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	3	114	0.2
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	3	n.a.	n.a.
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	585	0.8
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	3	218	0.3
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	3	357	0.5
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	2	765	1.0
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	354	0.5
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	2	69	0.1
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	61	0.1
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	54	0.1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	374	0.5
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch	Orthodox	1	500	0.7
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	27	0.0
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church	Mainline Protestant	1	280	0.4
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	10	0.0
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	86,031	116.9
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	423	340,680

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 736,014. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (340,680) include 46.3% 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.