Washtenaw County, Michigan

Denominational Groups, 2000

20,955	29,598	1,086	41,750	14,512	214,994
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	22	0.1
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	9	4,128	14.6
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,897	6.7
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	386	1.4
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	10,863	38.4
Catholic Church	Catholic	14	34,376	121.5
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	167	0.6
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	15	0.1
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	1	188	0.7
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	97	0.3
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	3	645	2.3
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	2	n.a.	n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	3	341	1.2
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	1	397	1.4
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	1	42	0.2
Church of God, Mountain Assembly, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	61	0.2
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	3	1,019	3.6
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	31	0.1
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	3	283	1.0
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	6	884	3.1
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	8	0.0
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	8	3,386	12.0
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	80	0.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	10	6,112	21.6
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	144	0.5
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	4	987	3.5
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	3	338	1.2
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	850	3.0
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	750	2.7
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	3	4,500	15.9
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	11	4,132	14.6
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	4	96	0.3
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	13	0.1
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	1,105	3.9
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	5	871	3.1
Old Regular Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	81	0.3
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	3	230	0.8
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	7	4,471	15.8
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	105	0.4
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	237	0.8
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	489	1.7
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	6	3,450	12.2
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	2	715	2.5
United Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	31	0.1
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	12	5,627	19.9
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	19	7,503	26.5
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	68	0.2
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,995	7.1
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	187	104,216

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 282,937. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (104,216) include 36.8% 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.