Mercer County, New Jersey

Denominational Groups, 2000

9,366	33,895	2,855	109,306	22,629	172,710
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^†
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	19	6,247	17.8
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	12	1,938	5.5
Bahá'í	Other Theology	4	199	0.6
Calvary Chapel Fellowship Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Catholic Church	Catholic	35	109,306	311.6
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	260	0.7
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	277	0.8
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	2	160	0.5
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,032	2.9
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	1	56	0.2
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	2	781	2.2
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	2	233	0.7
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	3	560	1.6
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	4	525	1.5
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	11	6,827	19.5
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	11	4,093	11.7
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	3	388	1.1
General Association of Regular Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	475	1.4
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	1,407	4.0
Hindu	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	400	1.1
International Council of Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	2	382	1.1
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	16	9,100	25.9
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	4	924	2.6
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	2	136	0.4
Muslim Estimate	Other Theology	4	11,673	33.3
National Primitive Baptist Convention, USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	393	1.1
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	1	233	0.7
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	62	0.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	21	9,904	28.2
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	2	506	1.4
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	190	0.5
Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	187	0.5
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,242	3.5
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA	Orthodox	2	1,215	3.5
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	3	876	2.5
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	1	132	0.4
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	19	5,732	16.3
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	213	178,051
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		230,168

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 325,824; in 2000 it was 350,761. The total population changed 7.7%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (178,051) include 50.8% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (230,168) include 65.6% of the population.

Source

^*The “Unadjusted Totals” come from the 1990 and 2000 data collected by representatives of the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). While quite comprehensive, this data excludes most of the historically African-American denominations and some other major groups. As a result, these numbers will be an underestimate of the total adherence rate, particularly in areas with a large African-American population. The 2000 data included 149 religious groups and the final results are published in Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Copyright © 2002, All rights reserved. The 1990 data included 132 groups and the final results are published in Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990 Copyright © 1990, All rights reserved. Published by Glenmary Research Center, 1312 Fifth Ave., North, Nashville, TN 37208. www.glenmary.org/grc [More information on the data collection]

^**The “Adjusted Totals” include all adherents in the denominations counted by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and estimates adherent totals for the historically African-American denominations and other religious groups not listed in the ASARB totals. An article by Roger Finke and Christopher P. Scheitle (2005) reviews how these estimates were computed.

^†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.

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