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Jefferson County, New York

Denominational Groups, 2000

3,261 13,888 162 30,993 1,020 62,414
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 1 54 0.5
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 10 1,691 15.2
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 5 605 5.5
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 26 0.2
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 1,114 10.0
Catholic Church Catholic 24 27,000 243.4
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 3 285 2.6
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 1 60 0.5
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 1 n.a. n.a.
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 1 37 0.3
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 1 591 5.3
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 3 605 5.5
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 65 0.6
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body) Mainline Protestant 3 331 3.0
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 1 n.a. n.a.
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 12 2,369 21.4
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 3 862 7.8
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 1 106 1.0
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 1 170 1.5
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant 3 283 2.6
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 10 2,063 18.6
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 1 375 3.4
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 69 0.6
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada Evangelical Protestant 1 31 0.3
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 2 85 0.8
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 4 531 4.8
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 3 142 1.3
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 5 1,056 9.5
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 35 7,682 69.2
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 50 0.5
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 140 48,338  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 110,943. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (48,338) include 43.6% 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.