Norfolk County, Massachusetts

Denominational Groups, 2000

9,401	40,162	7,543	380,930	46,344	165,928
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
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	-4	-1,208	-30.2%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+245	18.1%
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+2	-39	-3.9%
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+44,133	13.1%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+43	14.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+2	+790	121.9%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	+120	13.2%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+27	45.0%
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	0	+5	1.9%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	0	n.a.	n.a.
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+564	308.2%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	+1	-127	-1.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-14	-12.1%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	-2	-457	-21.9%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	+1	-84	-44.2%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+890	3069.0%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	+1,177	3.2%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+207	27.2%
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	0	-43	-48.9%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	-1	-1,480	-53.6%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	+1	+204	15.1%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+639	788.9%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-2,533	-87.3%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	-1,947	-42.4%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	-757	-4.8%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	-898	-16.0%
	Totals:	+6	+39,457	+9.1%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 616,087; in 2000 it was 650,308. The total population changed 5.6%. The adherent totals for 1990 (435,707) represent 70.7% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (484,380) include 74.5% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 25 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 25 groups had 431,923 adherents in 1990 and 471,380 adherents in 2000, for a change of 9.1%

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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