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Union County, New Jersey

Denominational Groups, 2000

9,939 39,844 5,379 251,815 35,130 180,434
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 3 1,356 2.7
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 20 7,670 15.2
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 9 1,516 3.0
Catholic Church Catholic 49 264,833 525.4
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 4 542 1.1
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 5 815 1.6
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 82 0.2
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 2 450 0.9
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 3 112 0.2
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 1 360 0.7
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 2 171 0.3
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 48 0.1
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 3 603 1.2
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 20 14,048 27.9
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 14 6,688 13.3
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 216 0.4
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 1 80 0.2
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 15 6,759 13.4
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 1 153 0.3
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 5 2,016 4.0
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province Mainline Protestant 1 157 0.3
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 209 0.4
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 31 21,555 42.8
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 1 451 0.9
Reformed Episcopal Church Evangelical Protestant 1 65 0.1
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 2 367 0.7
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada Evangelical Protestant 1 98 0.2
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 5 685 1.4
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 3 280 0.6
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 2 834 1.7
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 5 2,489 4.9
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 21 10,137 20.1
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 234 345,845  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 504,094. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (345,845) include 68.6% 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.