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Hillsborough County, New Hampshire

Denominational Groups, 2000

11,932 21,912 4,896 173,365 9,315 159,421
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 -2 -165 -6.7%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant -2 +53 4.8%
Catholic Church Catholic +33 +56,128 47.9%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant -2 -5 -2.5%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +2 +1,084 722.7%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant -1 -6 -1.5%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 0 +68 194.3%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +3 +533 38.8%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +1 +563 173.8%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +1 +161 41.5%
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body) Mainline Protestant -2 -323 -66.5%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 0 n.a. n.a.
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant +1 +91 29.8%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 +540 14.6%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 +534 66.3%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 -28 -34.1%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 0 -1,300 -81.3%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -1 -50 -5.9%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +1 +53 481.8%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +1 +2,500 71.4%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +116 12.9%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 0 +23 7.8%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant +1 +165 12.4%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 0 +27 36.5%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +1,232 373.3%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 0 +18 5.8%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +1 -23 -2.8%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 +25 2.1%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -3 -1,018 -11.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -1 -82 -2.1%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +131 436.7%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 -21 -14.6%
  Totals: +31 +61,024 +39.7%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 336,073; in 2000 it was 380,841. The total population changed 13.3%. The adherent totals for 1990 (155,723) represent 46.3% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (221,420) include 58.1% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 31 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 31 groups had 153,549 adherents in 1990 and 214,573 adherents in 2000, for a change of 39.7%

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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