Otsego County, New York

Denominational Groups, 2000

1,192	10,460	26	9,173	688	40,137
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	11	8,820	145.7
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	31	6,282	103.8
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	13	2,104	34.8
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	10	1,594	26.3
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	7	1,266	20.9
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	4	1,052	17.4
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	2	272	4.5
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	1	250	4.1
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	3	245	4.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	218	3.6
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	136	2.3
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	132	2.2
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	69	1.1
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	53	0.9
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	42	0.7
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	40	0.7
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	2	17	0.3
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	4	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	95	22,592

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 60,517. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (22,592) include 37.3% 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.