Franklin County, Massachusetts

Denominational Groups, 2000

1,648	6,300		41,847	1,732	20,008
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	14	17,004	264.4
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	28	4,248	66.1
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	5	2,033	31.6
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	8	1,121	17.4
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	7	1,042	16.2
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	2	595	9.3
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	6	541	8.4
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	436	6.8
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	2	275	4.3
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	246	3.8
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	124	1.9
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	1	72	1.1
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	67	1.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	57	0.9
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	78	27,861

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 64,317. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (27,861) include 43.3% 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.