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	% Change
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	+2	+219	112.3%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+71	147.9%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	+1	+36	51.4%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	0	-645	-15.8%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	+112	19.9%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	+274	172.3%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	0	0.0%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	0	n.a.	n.a.
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	+4	3.4%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-112	-4.6%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+21	7.2%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	0	-25	-7.1%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	+75	16.7%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	+110	67.1%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+84	81.6%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-34	-38.6%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	0	+117	139.3%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	-141	-20.4%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	-1,058	-20.3%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	-28	-1.4%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-92	-40.4%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	-1	n.a.	n.a.
Catholic Church	Catholic	-2	+13,588	65.9%
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	-2	-288	-67.6%
	Totals:	-2	+12,288	+31.9%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 120,005; in 2000 it was 136,225. The total population changed 13.5%. The adherent totals for 1990 (38,709) represent 32.3% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (52,540) include 38.6% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 22 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 22 groups had 38,487 adherents in 1990 and 50,775 adherents in 2000, for a change of 31.9%

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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