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Grand Traverse County, Michigan

Denominational Groups, 2000

7,140 10,528   18,283 799 40,904
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 7 13,747 213.9
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 9 2,846 44.3
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 4 2,062 32.1
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 3 1,744 27.1
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 2 1,454 22.6
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 1 1,037 16.1
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 1 943 14.7
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 1 460 7.2
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 1 390 6.1
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 3 323 5.0
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 1 302 4.7
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 1 286 4.5
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 224 3.5
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 2 166 2.6
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 157 2.4
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 156 2.4
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 141 2.2
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 2 137 2.1
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 1 113 1.8
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 97 1.5
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 1 97 1.5
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 94 1.5
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 1 80 1.2
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant 1 77 1.2
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 1 72 1.1
Missionary Church, The Evangelical Protestant 2 66 1.0
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 1 62 1.0
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant 1 54 0.8
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 1 26 0.4
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 2 0 0.0
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 1 n.a. n.a.
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 1 n.a. n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America Evangelical Protestant 2 n.a. n.a.
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 60 27,413  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 64,273. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (27,413) include 42.7% 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.