Genesee County, New York

Denominational Groups, 2000

2,822	8,519		24,240	11	24,778
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^†
Catholic Church	Catholic	18	23,705	399.1
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	253	4.3
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	60	1.0
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	275	4.6
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	264	4.4
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	777	13.1
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	353	5.9
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	54	0.9
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	10	2,611	44.0
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	1	254	4.3
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	4	1,727	29.1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	12	4,334	73.0
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	3	388	6.5
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	13	3,931	66.2
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	1	53	0.9
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	69	39,039

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 59,400. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (39,039) include 65.7% 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.