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Macomb County, Michigan

Denominational Groups, 2000

61,854 28,249 10,054 243,831 5,287 438,874
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
Advent Christian Church Evangelical Protestant 1 53 0.1
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 1 448 0.6
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 3 747 1.0
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 14 4,136 5.8
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 2 145 0.2
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 3,621 5.1
Catholic Church Catholic 59 373,485 520.6
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 2 232 0.3
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 615 0.9
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 1 85 0.1
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 2 n.a. n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 4 304 0.4
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 6 2,239 3.1
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 1 43 0.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 2 613 0.9
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 7 1,798 2.5
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 12 2,787 3.9
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 1 n.a. n.a.
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 116 0.2
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 2 205 0.3
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 7 1,908 2.7
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church Mainline Protestant 1 111 0.2
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 23 12,896 18.0
Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 296 0.4
Evangelical Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 1 477 0.7
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 2 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 3,500 4.9
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 2 1,900 2.7
International Pentecostal Church of Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 15 0.0
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 2 15,388 21.5
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 25 30,290 42.2
Missionary Church, The Evangelical Protestant 3 222 0.3
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant 3 356 0.5
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant 8 2,317 3.2
Old Missionary Baptists Associations Evangelical Protestant 1 149 0.2
Old Regular Baptists Evangelical Protestant 1 53 0.1
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 10 4,970 6.9
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 1 210 0.3
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 3 321 0.5
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 399 0.6
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 12 5,091 7.1
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 9 3,541 4.9
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 22 7,003 9.8
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 3 902 1.3
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 5 799 1.1
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 271 484,786  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 717,400. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (484,786) include 67.6% 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.