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Merrimack County, New Hampshire

Denominational Groups, 2000

2,969 13,115 414 34,215 1,827 83,685
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
Advent Christian Church Evangelical Protestant 3 147 1.2
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 15 4,074 34.0
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 2 228 1.9
Catholic Church Catholic 15 20,627 171.9
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 2 75 0.6
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 2 n.a. n.a.
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 1 48 0.4
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 2 564 4.7
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 2 159 1.3
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 118 1.0
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body) Mainline Protestant 3 426 3.6
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 5 n.a. n.a.
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 117 1.0
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 7 2,426 20.2
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 1 293 2.4
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 70 0.6
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 2 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 350 2.9
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 1 450 3.8
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 1 195 1.6
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 1 164 1.4
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 103 0.9
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 88 0.7
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 1 84 0.7
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 3 691 5.8
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 20 5,214 43.5
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 6 1,998 16.7
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 101 38,709  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 120,005. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (38,709) include 32.3% 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.