Hillsdale County, Michigan

Denominational Groups, 2000

4,156	3,607		2,897	403	35,464
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
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	0	-191	-20.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+15	6.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+497	21.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	-78	-32.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+44	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	+223	130.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	+15	5.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	-1	-1.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	+1	-249	-66.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-81	-31.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	0	-413	-72.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+20	6.0%
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+134	n.a.
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	+1	+164	64.0%
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+255	160.0%
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+215	n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	-85	-10.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+26	9.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+18	13.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	0	+169	70.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	-867	-39.0%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+242	n.a.
	Totals:	+12	+72	+.7%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 42,071; in 2000 it was 46,527. The total population changed 7.1%. The adherent totals for 1980 (10,434) represent 24.8% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (11,063) include 23.8% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 22 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 22 groups had 10,066 adherents in 1980 and 10,138 adherents in 2000, for a change of .7%

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 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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