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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
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 2 691 3.1
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 3 1,127 5.0
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 6 640 2.9
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 9,240 41.2
Catholic Church Catholic 24 66,328 295.7
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 4 533 2.4
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 2 130 0.6
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 1 n.a. n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 3 107 0.5
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 2 99 0.4
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 1 33 0.2
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 1 410 1.8
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 1 104 0.5
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 2 113 0.5
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 8 1,979 8.8
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 1 197 0.9
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 7 3,025 13.5
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 38 0.2
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 2 n.a. n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America Evangelical Protestant 1 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 400 1.8
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 4 2,800 12.5
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 13 15,800 70.4
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant 2 81 0.4
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province Mainline Protestant 1 443 2.0
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 8 1,601 7.1
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 1 25 0.1
Reformed Episcopal Church Evangelical Protestant 2 91 0.4
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 81 0.4
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 5 421 1.9
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 1 348 1.6
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 4 1,024 4.6
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 28 5,492 24.5
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 2 335 1.5
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 146 113,736  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 224,327. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (113,736) include 50.7% 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.