Warren County, New Jersey

Denominational Groups, 2000

4,066	13,448	99	30,940	462	53,422
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
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-78	-14.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+2,177	8.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+583	184.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	+44	105.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	0	0.0%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+73	35.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-501	-22.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+237	370.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-1,848	-41.0%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+2	+400	n.a.
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-29	-5.0%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	+1	+99	n.a.
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+166	60.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-10	-5,466	-58.0%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+147	n.a.
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+75	17.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	+34	35.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	-434	-8.0%
	Totals:	+1	-4,321	-8.2%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 84,429; in 2000 it was 102,437. The total population changed 11.8%. The adherent totals for 1980 (52,953) represent 62.7% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (49,015) include 47.8% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 18 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 18 groups had 52,942 adherents in 1980 and 48,621 adherents in 2000, for a change of -8.2%

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 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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