Allegany County, New York

Denominational Groups, 2000

5,712	5,493		6,458	176	32,088
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	6	904	17.9
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	2	223	4.4
Catholic Church	Catholic	14	6,819	135.1
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	334	6.6
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	40	0.8
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	1	440	8.7
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	3	252	5.0
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	181	3.6
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	35	0.7
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	7	494	9.8
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	24	0.5
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	74	1.5
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	49	1.0
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	720	14.3
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	2	675	13.4
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	4	178	3.5
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	250	5.0
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	5	335	6.6
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	49	1.0
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	84	1.7
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	4	449	8.9
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	61	1.2
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	1	47	0.9
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	1	131	2.6
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	27	4,131	81.9
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,409	27.9
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	99	18,388

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 50,470. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (18,388) include 36.4% 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.