Rockingham County, New Hampshire

Denominational Groups, 2000

5,172	20,903	720	117,542	5,915	127,107
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	0	-427	-8.8%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	-346	-26.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	+6	+59,779	103.5%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+23	9.3%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	+256	29.5%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+31	28.4%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-54	-32.3%
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	-2	-957	-84.0%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	0	n.a.	n.a.
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+168	166.3%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	+63	1.9%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-5	-6.3%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-152	-16.9%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	0	+47	671.4%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	0	-125	-26.3%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	+300	27.3%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-22	-9.5%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	-1	-180	-28.7%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	+206	31.1%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+209	251.8%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-20	-21.3%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	0	+225	13.6%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+349	34.1%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	+1	+563	9.7%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-1	+164	3.9%
	Totals:	+6	+60,095	+69.2%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 245,845; in 2000 it was 277,359. The total population changed 12.8%. The adherent totals for 1990 (87,761) represent 35.7% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (150,252) include 54.2% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 24 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 24 groups had 86,898 adherents in 1990 and 146,993 adherents in 2000, for a change of 69.2%

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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