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.
[More information on the data sources]

Reports

Religious Bodies	Theology	Congregations	Adherents	% Change
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+461	206.7%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+1,391	98.7%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+75	89.3%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+34	72.3%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+28	45.9%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+18	36.7%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	0	+12	24.5%
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+37	20.8%
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+18	7.2%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	+6	4.6%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	0	0.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	-361	-5.3%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-37	-7.5%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	-41	-9.3%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	0	-9	-12.2%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	0	-123	-13.6%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	-25	-13.8%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	-5	-14.3%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-3	-754	-18.3%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-48	-19.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-2	-148	-44.2%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-375	-55.6%
	Totals:	+2	+154	+.9%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 50,470; in 2000 it was 49,927. The total population changed -1.1%. The adherent totals for 1990 (18,388) represent 36.4% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (17,839) include 35.7% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 22 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 22 groups had 17,155 adherents in 1990 and 17,309 adherents in 2000, for a change of .9%

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 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.

[More information on these data sources]