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Atlantic County, New Jersey

Denominational Groups, 2000

5,427 13,931 905 62,940 19,340 150,009
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 23 54,934 283.0
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 27 5,897 30.4
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 9 3,197 16.5
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 7 3,109 16.0
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 5 2,432 12.5
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 9 2,404 12.4
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 4 1,609 8.3
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 4 1,405 7.2
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 7 959 4.9
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 1 510 2.6
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 411 2.1
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province Mainline Protestant 1 395 2.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 5 340 1.8
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 2 286 1.5
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 1 251 1.3
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 3 225 1.2
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 1 201 1.0
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 2 162 0.8
Reformed Episcopal Church Evangelical Protestant 2 118 0.6
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 3 115 0.6
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 2 110 0.6
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 2 93 0.5
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 2 88 0.5
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 1 71 0.4
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 13 0.1
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 125 79,335  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 194,119. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (79,335) include 40.9% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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.