Queens County, New York

Denominational Groups, 2000

41,437	60,757	29,387	644,066	297,046	1,156,686
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	106	644,066	288.9
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	159	238,000	106.8
Muslim Estimate	Other Theology	31	52,038	23.3
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	8	16,959	7.6
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	33	14,695	6.6
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	32	12,843	5.8
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	28	11,031	5.0
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	28	10,414	4.7
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	47	8,983	4.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	36	8,109	3.6
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	19	6,917	3.1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	34	6,108	2.7
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Vasiloupulis	Orthodox	3	6,025	2.7
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	27	4,114	1.9
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	22	3,556	1.6
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	19	3,333	1.5
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	38	3,179	1.4
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	20	3,147	1.4
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Etchmiadzin	Orthodox	1	3,000	1.4
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	14	1,799	0.8
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	24	1,745	0.8
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,385	0.6
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	1,185	0.5
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,113	0.5
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	5	978	0.4
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia	Orthodox	1	840	0.4
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	10	821	0.4
Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, American Diocese of the	Orthodox	4	800	0.4
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	7	646	0.3
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	3	580	0.3
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	2	567	0.3
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	402	0.2
Orthodox Church in America: Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese	Orthodox	1	400	0.2
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	5	386	0.2
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	4	266	0.1
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	1	243	0.1
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	2	252	0.1
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	2	195	0.1
International Council of Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	183	0.1
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	148	0.1
Malankara Archdiocese of the Syrian Orthodox Church in North America	Orthodox	1	150	0.1
Vineyard USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	163	0.1
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	133	0.1
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	133	0.1
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	2	91	0.0
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	61	0.0
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	4	62	0.0
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	61	0.0
General Association of Regular Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	74	0.0
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	65	0.0
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean)	Evangelical Protestant	1	50	0.0
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA	Orthodox	1	45	0.0
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	50	0.0
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	32	0.0
Holy Orthodox Church in North America	Orthodox	1	21	0.0
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	1	24	0.0
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	27	0.0
Buddhism	Other Theology	16	n.a.	n.a.
Hindu	Other Theology	36	n.a.	n.a.
Jain	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
Patriarchal Parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church in the USA	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia	Orthodox	3	n.a.	n.a.
Sikh	Other Theology	4	n.a.	n.a.
Southwide Baptist Fellowship	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Tao	Other Theology	2	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	882	1,072,693
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		1,411,006

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 1,951,598; in 2000 it was 2,229,379. The total population changed 14.2%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (1,072,693) include 48.1% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (1,411,006) include 63.3% of the population.

Source

^*The “Unadjusted Totals” come from the 1990 and 2000 data collected by representatives of the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). While quite comprehensive, this data excludes most of the historically African-American denominations and some other major groups. As a result, these numbers will be an underestimate of the total adherence rate, particularly in areas with a large African-American population. The 2000 data included 149 religious groups and the final results are published in Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Copyright © 2002, All rights reserved. The 1990 data included 132 groups and the final results are published in Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990 Copyright © 1990, All rights reserved. Published by Glenmary Research Center, 1312 Fifth Ave., North, Nashville, TN 37208. www.glenmary.org/grc [More information on the data collection]

^**The “Adjusted Totals” include all adherents in the denominations counted by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and estimates adherent totals for the historically African-American denominations and other religious groups not listed in the ASARB totals. An article by Roger Finke and Christopher P. Scheitle (2005) reviews how these estimates were computed.

^†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.

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