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Schenectady County, New York

Denominational Groups, 2000

6,099 16,533 903 70,874 7,750 44,396
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 22 77,810 518.9
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 15 7,635 50.9
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 12 8,151 54.4
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 8 2,059 13.7
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 6 1,929 12.9
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 5 2,499 16.7
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 4 4,091 27.3
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 3 1,982 13.2
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant 3 588 3.9
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 2 1,432 9.6
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 2 119 0.8
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 2 2,222 14.8
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 2 244 1.6
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 1 645 4.3
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 1 535 3.6
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 1 151 1.0
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 140 0.9
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 626 4.2
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 1 168 1.1
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 1 70 0.5
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 110 0.7
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 190 1.3
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 90 0.6
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada Evangelical Protestant 1 25 0.2
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 225 1.5
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 1 116 0.8
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 99 113,852  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 149,946. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (113,852) include 75.9% 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.