Antrim County, Michigan

Denominational Groups, 2000

2,551	2,458		1,309	4	16,788
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^†
Catholic Church	Catholic	4	1,537	84.5
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	175	9.6
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	2	318	17.5
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	1	35	1.9
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	1	184	10.1
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	113	6.2
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	2	109	6.0
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	42	2.3
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	3	412	22.7
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	60	3.3
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	169	9.3
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	245	13.5
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	2	153	8.4
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	2	378	20.8
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	296	16.3
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	67	3.7
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	8	881	48.5
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	466	25.6
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	36	5,640

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 18,185. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (5,640) include 31.0% 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.