Berkshire County, Massachusetts

Denominational Groups, 2000

1,963	13,969	392	69,757	4,523	44,349
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^†
Catholic Church	Catholic	42	66,169	456.0
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	23	6,477	44.6
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	15	5,917	40.8
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	12	3,467	23.9
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	11	3,785	26.1
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	6	1,012	7.0
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	855	5.9
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	3	880	6.1
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	547	3.8
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	2	185	1.3
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	2	192	1.3
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	2	850	5.9
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	41	0.3
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	183	1.3
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	127	0.9
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	187	1.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	1,252	8.6
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	1	52	0.4
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	166	1.1
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	116	0.8
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	127	0.9
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	133	92,587

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 145,110. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (92,587) include 63.8% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

^†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.