Jones County, Mississippi

Denominational Groups, 2000

36,962	4,473		800	272	22,451
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
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-235	-23.0%
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+189	4.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+107	15.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-283	-56.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+262	154.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	+68	43.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	-31	-19.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+110	35.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-237	-52.0%
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+309	n.a.
Interstate & Foreign Landmark Missionary Baptists Association	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+161	n.a.
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+81	n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-2	-508	-55.0%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+75	123.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+8	4.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-65	-24.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+3,901	16.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	-1	-98	-68.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-1	-2,194	-36.0%
	Totals:	6	1,620	+4.0%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 61,912; in 2000 it was 64,958. The total population changed 4.7%. The adherent totals for 1980 (41,453) represent 67.0% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (42,507) include 65.4% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 19 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 19 groups had 40,885 adherents in 1980 and 42,505 adherents in 2000, for a change of 4.0%

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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