Belknap County, New Hampshire

Denominational Groups, 2000

1,397	5,545	117	17,778	864	30,624
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^†
Catholic Church	Catholic	15	13,790	280.2
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	11	2,239	45.5
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	7	1,927	39.2
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	3	920	18.7
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	3	765	15.5
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	384	7.8
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	1	277	5.6
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	1	270	5.5
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	237	4.8
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	228	4.6
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	131	2.7
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	109	2.2
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	104	2.1
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	90	1.8
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	3	58	1.2
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	58	1.2
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	47	1.0
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	42	0.9
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	61	21,676

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 49,216. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (21,676) include 44.0% 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.