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County Membership Report
Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Denominational Groups, 2000
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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
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| Religious Bodies |
Theology |
Congregations |
Adherents |
Adherence Rate† |
| Catholic Church |
Catholic |
136 |
793,922 |
541.8 |
| United Church of Christ |
Mainline Protestant |
79 |
24,451 |
16.7 |
| American Baptist Churches in the USA |
Mainline Protestant |
56 |
10,811 |
7.4 |
| Episcopal Church |
Mainline Protestant |
54 |
21,262 |
14.5 |
| Jewish Estimate |
Other Theology |
51 |
113,700 |
77.6 |
| United Methodist Church, The |
Mainline Protestant |
49 |
18,152 |
12.4 |
| Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations |
Other Theology |
33 |
9,289 |
6.3 |
| Buddhism |
Other Theology |
24 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Assemblies of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
23 |
4,670 |
3.2 |
| Southern Baptist Convention |
Evangelical Protestant |
19 |
3,375 |
2.3 |
| Church of the Nazarene |
Evangelical Protestant |
17 |
1,945 |
1.3 |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The |
Other Theology |
16 |
6,418 |
4.4 |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
15 |
5,622 |
3.8 |
| Seventh-day Adventist Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
14 |
2,150 |
1.5 |
| Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America |
Orthodox |
12 |
14,553 |
9.9 |
| Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) |
Evangelical Protestant |
11 |
914 |
0.6 |
| Bahá'í |
Other Theology |
11 |
793 |
0.5 |
| Conservative Baptist Association of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
8 |
865 |
0.6 |
| Hindu |
Other Theology |
8 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) |
Mainline Protestant |
8 |
1,704 |
1.2 |
| Muslim Estimate |
Other Theology |
7 |
12,846 |
8.8 |
| Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
5 |
497 |
0.3 |
| Conservative Congregational Christian Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
5 |
670 |
0.5 |
| Evangelical Free Church of America, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
5 |
670 |
0.5 |
| Salvation Army, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
5 |
1,834 |
1.3 |
| Vineyard USA |
Evangelical Protestant |
5 |
1,492 |
1.0 |
| Presbyterian Church in America |
Evangelical Protestant |
5 |
510 |
0.4 |
| Independent, Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
4 |
1,595 |
1.1 |
| Evangelical Covenant Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
4 |
485 |
0.3 |
| Friends (Quakers) |
Mainline Protestant |
4 |
209 |
0.1 |
| Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Etchmiadzin |
Orthodox |
4 |
10,710 |
7.3 |
| Christian and Missionary Alliance, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
237 |
0.2 |
| Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body) |
Mainline Protestant |
3 |
662 |
0.5 |
| Baptist General Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
142 |
0.1 |
| Mennonite Church USA |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
135 |
0.1 |
| Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, The |
Orthodox |
2 |
978 |
0.7 |
| Primitive Methodist Church in the USA |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
121 |
0.1 |
| International Council of Community Churches |
Mainline Protestant |
2 |
766 |
0.5 |
| Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
4,000 |
2.7 |
| Christian Churches and Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
231 |
0.2 |
| International Church of the Foursquare Gospel |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
175 |
0.1 |
| Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
1,118 |
0.8 |
| Tao |
Other Theology |
1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia |
Orthodox |
1 |
2,100 |
1.4 |
| Christian Reformed Church in North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
88 |
0.1 |
| Reformed Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
1 |
104 |
0.1 |
| Calvary Chapel Fellowship Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, American Diocese of the |
Orthodox |
1 |
175 |
0.1 |
| Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Vasiloupulis |
Orthodox |
1 |
340 |
0.2 |
| Zoroastrian |
Other Theology |
1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| International Pentecostal Church of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
10 |
0.0 |
| Cumberland Presbyterian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
20 |
0.0 |
| Community of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
174 |
0.1 |
| Churches of God, General Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
65 |
0.0 |
| Orthodox Church in America: Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese |
Orthodox |
1 |
200 |
0.1 |
| Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses |
Orthodox |
1 |
336 |
0.2 |
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Totals (Unadjusted)*:
| 736 |
1,078,291 |
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Total (Adjusted)**:
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1,220,871 |
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The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 1,398,468; in 2000 it was 1,465,396. The total population changed 4.8%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (1,078,291) include 73.6% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (1,220,871) include 83.3% of the population.
Source
*The “Unadjusted Totals” come from the 1990 and 2000 data collected by representatives of the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). While quite comprehensive, this data excludes most of the historically African-American denominations and some other major groups. As a result, these numbers will be an underestimate of the total adherence rate, particularly in areas with a large African-American population. The 2000 data included 149 religious groups and the final results are published in Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Copyright © 2002, All rights reserved. The 1990 data included 132 groups and the final results are published in Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990 Copyright © 1990, All rights reserved. Published by Glenmary Research Center, 1312 Fifth Ave., North, Nashville, TN 37208. www.glenmary.org [More information on the data collection]
**The “Adjusted Totals” include all adherents in the denominations counted by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and estimates adherent totals for the historically African-American denominations and other religious groups not listed in the ASARB totals. An article by Roger Finke and Christopher P. Scheitle (2005) reviews how these estimates were computed.
†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.
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