Boone County, Missouri

Denominational Groups, 2000

26,308	16,810		9,463	2,872	80,001
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	+1	-137	-9.6%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	+398	32.1%
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+44	258.8%
Catholic Church	Catholic	+1	-2,257	-19.3%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	+1,289	26.7%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+913	111.3%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-52	-53.1%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	+314	33.3%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	0	+6	46.2%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	+40	17.6%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+40	6.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	+72	8.4%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+350	77.8%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-126	-15.2%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	0	+15	28.8%
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-600	-37.5%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	0	-35	-67.3%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+1	+50	14.3%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+571	42.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	0	+53	106.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	-138	-10.4%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+29	193.3%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+49	57.6%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-58	-6.3%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+2,500	19.1%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+31	12.7%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	+145	15.6%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	+1	-373	-6.4%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-17	-30.4%
	Totals:	+9	+3,116	+6.2%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 112,379; in 2000 it was 135,454. The total population changed 20.5%. The adherent totals for 1990 (52,957) represent 47.1% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (55,453) include 40.9% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 29 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 29 groups had 50,087 adherents in 1990 and 53,203 adherents in 2000, for a change of 6.2%

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 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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