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Middlesex County, New Jersey

Denominational Groups, 2000

12,014 33,978 6,109 343,095 54,020 300,946
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 2 717 1.1
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 13 5,176 7.7
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church Orthodox 1 800 1.2
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 9 1,779 2.7
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 1 14 0.0
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 12,507 18.6
Byelorussion Council Of Orthodox Churches In North America Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Catholic Church Catholic 72 331,632 493.7
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 4 670 1.0
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 2 289 0.4
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 2 1,232 1.8
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 1 n.a. n.a.
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 1 211 0.3
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 1 476 0.7
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 1 74 0.1
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 2 73 0.1
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 2 n.a. n.a.
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 19 4,979 7.4
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 14 5,253 7.8
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 78 0.1
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 2 n.a. n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America Evangelical Protestant 3 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 8,500 12.7
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 29 58,000 86.3
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 1 321 0.5
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 4 2,481 3.7
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 142 0.2
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 22 9,608 14.3
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 1 0 0.0
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 11 3,573 5.3
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 2 178 0.3
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 9 1,166 1.7
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 3 672 1.0
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 257 0.4
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 7 2,083 3.1
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 20 6,880 10.2
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 14 0.0
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 171 0.3
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 270 460,006  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 671,780. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (460,006) include 68.5% 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.