Athens County, Ohio

Denominational Groups, 2000

5,726	5,592		1,951	654	48,300
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	7	3,377	59.9
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	352	6.2
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	12	1,938	34.4
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	2	207	3.7
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	6	825	14.6
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	3	240	4.3
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	2	297	5.3
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	133	2.4
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	59	1.1
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	2	321	5.7
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	2	175	3.1
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	7	1,506	26.7
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	2	413	7.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	287	5.1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	5	1,113	19.7
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	34	3,574	63.4
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	142	2.5
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	45	0.8
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	90	15,004

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 56,399. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (15,004) include 26.6% 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.