New York County, New York

Denominational Groups, 2000

32,144	99,916	19,705	564,505	359,105	461,820
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	101	564,969	379.8
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	19	80,018	53.8
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	39	16,288	11.0
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	131	0.1
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	61,914	41.6
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,050	0.7
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	102	0.1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	7	167	0.1
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	80	0.1
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	4	478	0.3
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	7	885	0.6
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	2	127	0.1
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	4	194	0.1
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	10	4,175	2.8
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	100	0.1
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	4,200	2.8
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	1,325	0.9
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,434	1.0
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	4	144	0.1
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	162	0.1
Reformed Episcopal Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	114	0.1
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	475	0.3
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	18	6,382	4.3
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,296	0.9
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	46	0.0
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	43	29,827	20.1
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	7	869	0.6
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	45	23,627	15.9
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church	Mainline Protestant	1	749	0.5
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	20	5,248	3.5
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	2	388	0.3
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	2	1,309	0.9
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	28	11,042	7.4
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	6	11,447	7.7
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	11	3,774	2.5
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	24	13,982	9.4
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church	Orthodox	2	389	0.3
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia	Orthodox	1	10,000	6.7
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	11	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	4	n.a.	n.a.
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch	Orthodox	1	600	0.4
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	10	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	4	1,995	1.3
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	188	274,300	184.4
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	3	2,014	1.4
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	669	1,137,816

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 1,487,536. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (1,137,816) include 76.5% 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.