Alpena County, Michigan

Denominational Groups, 2000

4,712	5,537	225	13,650	265	6,925
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
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+3,417	33.4%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+328	14.8%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+185	n.a.
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+182	337.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+153	118.6%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	+135	n.a.
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	+55	36.7%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+18	26.5%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+16	66.7%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+16	15.2%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	0	-1	-2.3%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	0	-7	-5.3%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-8	-0.2%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	0	-22	-13.4%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	-31	-43.7%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-1	-48	-5.7%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	-63	-28.9%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	0	-64	-22.6%
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	-94	-26.7%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	-97	-23.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-556	-55.6%
	Totals:	0	+3,514	+17.6%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 30,605; in 2000 it was 31,314. The total population changed 2.3%. The adherent totals for 1990 (20,104) represent 65.7% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (24,389) include 77.9% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 21 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 21 groups had 19,972 adherents in 1990 and 23,486 adherents in 2000, for a change of 17.6%

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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