Ashland County, Ohio

Denominational Groups, 2000

6,407	11,824	1,698	1,885	5	30,704
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^†
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	17	4,634	88.2
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	10	716	13.6
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	10	4,593	87.5
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	5	824	15.7
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	5	826	15.7
Catholic Church	Catholic	3	1,885	35.9
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	3	724	13.8
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	3	370	7.0
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	3	696	13.3
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	3	407	7.8
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	3	425	8.1
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	215	4.1
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	2	761	14.5
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	2	55	1.1
General Association of Regular Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	110	2.1
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	110	2.1
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	155	3.0
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	345	6.6
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	1	482	9.2
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	143	2.7
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	43	0.8
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	1,698	32.3
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	1	228	4.3
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	1,000	19.0
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	1	97	1.9
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	1	114	2.2
Churches of God, General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	26	0.5
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	103	2.0
Bahá'í	Other Theology	0	5	0.1
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	0	29	0.6
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	86	21,819
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		24,113

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 47,507; in 2000 it was 52,523. The total population changed 10.6%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (21,819) include 41.5% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (24,113) include 45.9% 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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