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	% Change
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+210	148.9%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	+197	35.1%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	+87	30.9%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	+1	+72	15.1%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	0	+69	168.3%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+1	+50	1.3%
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	0	+47	24.4%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+13	6.4%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	-5	-3.1%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-6	-3.6%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-6	-5.7%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-14	-8.8%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-23	-18.0%
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	-37	-46.3%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+1	-94	-9.8%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	-390	-13.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-563	-13.2%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	-2	-637	-21.8%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-3	-1,033	-21.8%
Catholic Church	Catholic	-4	-15,340	-18.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
	Totals:	-7	-17,403	-16.2%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 139,352; in 2000 it was 134,953. The total population changed -3.2%. The adherent totals for 1990 (109,176) represent 78.3% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (90,604) include 67.1% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 20 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 20 groups had 107,542 adherents in 1990 and 90,139 adherents in 2000, for a change of -16.2%

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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