Wayne County, Michigan

Denominational Groups, 2000

134,434	113,364	17,376	451,069	60,326	1,284,593
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^†
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	10	40,932	17.5
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	100	0.0
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	30	23,113	9.9
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean)	Evangelical Protestant	1	24	0.0
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia	Orthodox	1	1,180	0.5
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	29	9,650	4.1
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,042	0.5
Catholic Church	Catholic	217	644,216	275.6
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	8	756	0.3
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	12	1,425	0.6
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	6	1,634	0.7
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,853	0.8
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	3	860	0.4
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	16	7,740	3.3
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	28	3,770	1.6
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	1	23	0.0
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	6	2,295	1.0
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	364	0.2
Church of the Lutheran Confession	Evangelical Protestant	1	26	0.0
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	13	2,539	1.1
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	44	9,825	4.2
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	7	162	0.1
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	48	23,223	9.9
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	625	0.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	72	31,498	13.5
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	7	3,159	1.4
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	2	88	0.0
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	101	0.0
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	2	4,015	1.7
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	64	47,599	20.4
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	381	0.2
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	1	261	0.1
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	5	3,492	1.5
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	1,444	0.6
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	57	44,376	19.0
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	11	2,671	1.1
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	8	5,468	2.3
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	15	6,093	2.6
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	42	13,841	5.9
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA	Orthodox	1	280	0.1
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	2	917	0.4
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	25	15,721	6.7
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	68	34,902	14.9
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	13	6,173	2.6
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	903	999,857

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 2,337,891. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (999,857) include 42.8% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

^†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.