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Allegan County, Michigan

Denominational Groups, 2000

17,230 10,844   11,992 155 65,444
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 1 124 1.5
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 4 350 4.3
Catholic Church Catholic 10 8,517 104.4
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 1 292 3.6
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 17 5,478 67.2
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 3 894 11.0
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 2 87 1.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 1 50 0.6
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 1 19 0.2
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 3 163 2.0
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 4 94 1.2
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 3 463 5.7
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 1 221 2.7
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 1 54 0.7
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 3 972 11.9
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 2 495 6.1
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 10 3,817 46.8
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 789 9.7
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 4 475 5.8
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 1 33 0.4
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 2 290 3.6
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 20 3,576 43.9
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 5 1,039 12.7
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 100 28,292  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 81,555. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (28,292) include 34.7% 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.