Westchester County, New York

Denominational Groups, 2000

18,313	54,673	5,068	469,670	102,907	272,828
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	% Change
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	+1	-1,815	-22.4%
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church	Orthodox	0	-71	-25.5%
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses	Orthodox	0	+760	n.a.
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+1,218	43.2%
Catholic Church	Catholic	+6	+41,785	9.8%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+375	24.7%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+531	2413.6%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+55	550.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+703	140.6%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	0	+107	53.8%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+4	+723	59.4%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+234	129.3%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+239	373.4%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	n.a.	n.a.
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-2,061	-12.2%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+307	5.6%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	+1	-199	-34.7%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	-3	n.a.	n.a.
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+2	-28,600	-23.3%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-278	-9.6%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	-1	n.a.	n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-3	-2,359	-18.0%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+232	1364.7%
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-202	-5.5%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+755	493.5%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+729	30.7%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+750	474.7%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	-41	-4.5%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	-801	-25.2%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	-2,732	-20.2%
	Totals:	+29	+10,344	+1.6%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 874,866; in 2000 it was 923,459. The total population changed 5.6%. The adherent totals for 1990 (676,128) represent 77.3% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (650,631) include 70.5% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 27 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 27 groups had 628,340 adherents in 1990 and 638,684 adherents in 2000, for a change of 1.6%

Sources

The 2000 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and includes statistics for 149 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Dale E. Jones, Sherri Doty, Clifford Grammich, James E. Horsch, Richard Houseal, Mac Lynn, John P. Marcum, Kenneth M. Sanchagrin and Richard H. Taylor supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States, 2000, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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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