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^†
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	6	539	7.7
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	4	280	4.0
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	122	1.7
Catholic Church	Catholic	19	50,098	714.8
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	547	7.8
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	1	36	0.5
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	15	0.2
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	2	162	2.3
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	132	1.9
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	4	1,109	15.8
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	2	496	7.1
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	2	10	0.1
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	2	900	12.8
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	96	1.4
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	134	1.9
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	1	26	0.4
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	6	601	8.6
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	26	3,988	56.9
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	6	914	13.0
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	89	60,205

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 70,092. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (60,205) include 85.9% 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.