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	% Change
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	+1	+224	589.5%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+464	572.8%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+81	245.5%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+224	226.3%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+769	120.2%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+1	+429	104.6%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+103	52.3%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+76	18.1%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+287	9.5%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+27	8.1%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	0	0.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	0	0.0%
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	-1	0	0.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-17	-4.9%
Catholic Church	Catholic	-1	-3,388	-5.1%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-1	-414	-7.5%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	-1	-1,200	-7.6%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-1	-79	-7.7%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	-173	-10.8%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	-1	-315	-15.9%
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	0	-78	-17.6%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	0	-5	-20.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	-1	-250	-22.2%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-26	-24.3%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-143	-26.8%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
	Totals:	+1	-3,404	-3.4%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 224,327; in 2000 it was 252,552. The total population changed 12.6%. The adherent totals for 1990 (113,736) represent 50.7% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (102,543) include 40.6% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 25 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 25 groups had 100,384 adherents in 1990 and 96,980 adherents in 2000, for a change of -3.4%

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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