Westchester County, New York
Denominational Groups, 2000
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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
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| Religious Bodies |
Theology |
Congregations |
Adherents |
Adherence Rate† |
| Catholic Church |
Catholic |
90 |
427,885 |
489.1 |
| Jewish Estimate |
Other Theology |
60 |
122,600 |
140.1 |
| Episcopal Church |
Mainline Protestant |
49 |
16,946 |
19.4 |
| United Methodist Church, The |
Mainline Protestant |
34 |
13,522 |
15.5 |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) |
Mainline Protestant |
29 |
13,089 |
15.0 |
| American Baptist Churches in the USA |
Mainline Protestant |
20 |
8,109 |
9.3 |
| Assemblies of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
18 |
2,817 |
3.2 |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
17 |
5,449 |
6.2 |
| Seventh-day Adventist Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
13 |
2,374 |
2.7 |
| Reformed Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
11 |
3,667 |
4.2 |
| United Church of Christ |
Mainline Protestant |
11 |
3,179 |
3.6 |
| Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
10 |
2,896 |
3.3 |
| Church of Christ, Scientist |
Other Theology |
10 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
9 |
18,654 |
21.3 |
| Christian and Missionary Alliance, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
8 |
1,518 |
1.7 |
| Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) |
Evangelical Protestant |
6 |
500 |
0.6 |
| Friends (Quakers) |
Mainline Protestant |
5 |
574 |
0.7 |
| Christian Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
5 |
489 |
0.6 |
| Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations |
Other Theology |
5 |
915 |
1.1 |
| Salvation Army, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
5 |
153 |
0.2 |
| Conservative Baptist Association of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
4 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America |
Orthodox |
4 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The |
Other Theology |
3 |
1,218 |
1.4 |
| Church of God of Prophecy |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
199 |
0.2 |
| Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
64 |
0.1 |
| Southern Baptist Convention |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
158 |
0.2 |
| Christian Churches and Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
22 |
0.0 |
| Church of the Nazarene |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
181 |
0.2 |
| Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses |
Orthodox |
2 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses |
Orthodox |
1 |
0 |
0.0 |
| Bible Church of Christ, Inc. |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
2,387 |
2.7 |
| Presbyterian Church in America |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
17 |
0.0 |
| Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
10 |
0.0 |
| Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) |
Mainline Protestant |
1 |
52 |
0.1 |
| Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
1 |
1,988 |
2.3 |
| American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church |
Orthodox |
1 |
278 |
0.3 |
| Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
395 |
0.5 |
| Black Baptists Estimate |
Evangelical Protestant |
n.a. |
23,823 |
27.2 |
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Totals (Unadjusted)*:
| 448 |
676,128 |
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The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 874,866. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (676,128) include 77.3% 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.
