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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
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +28 +71,402 316.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +11 +2,534 169.0%
Catholic Church Catholic +7 +40,402 9.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +6 +713 366.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +6 +1,391 81.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +6 +185 80.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +5 +1,178 154.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +4 +1,084 911.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +3 +553 n.a.
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +3 +306 n.a.
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +707 60.0%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +2 +226 983.0%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant +1 -288 -43.0%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant +1 -62 -10.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant +1 -4,539 -42.0%
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses Orthodox +1 +760 n.a.
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant +1 -4,285 -28.0%
Evangelical Covenant Church, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +9 9.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +1 +1,626 n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox +1 +375 n.a.
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +1 -45 -5.0%
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church Orthodox +1 +207 n.a.
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 +78 35.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 0 -10 -13.0%
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 -2,563 -42.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 -93 -10.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 0 -1,609 -40.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant -2 -1,121 -30.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -3 -5,848 -35.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant -4 -2,691 -32.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant -5 -5,934 -28.0%
  Totals: +79 +94,648 +17.3%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 866,599; in 2000 it was 923,459. The total population changed 5.6%. The adherent totals for 1980 (567,239) represent 65.5% of the 1980 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 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 31 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 31 groups had 546,676 adherents in 1980 and 641,324 adherents in 2000, for a change of 17.3%

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 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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