Branch County, Michigan

Denominational Groups, 2000

4,059	3,185		6,440	3	32,100
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^†
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	6	1,373	33.1
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	5	750	18.1
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	3	565	13.6
Catholic Church	Catholic	3	4,372	105.3
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	3	520	12.5
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	280	6.8
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	2	827	19.9
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	203	4.9
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	2	258	6.2
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	251	6.1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	2	618	14.9
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	2	396	9.5
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	265	6.4
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	1	177	4.3
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	100	2.4
Church of the United Brethren in Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	66	1.6
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	1	37	0.9
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	42	1.0
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	1	13	0.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	243	5.9
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	1	166	4.0
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	77	1.9
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	190	4.6
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	208	5.0
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	45	11,997

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 41,502. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (11,997) include 28.9% 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.