Brown County, Ohio

Denominational Groups, 2000

6,716	2,272		2,760	271	30,266
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	5,620	160.7
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	2	94	2.7
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	13	3,200	91.5
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	1	75	2.1
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	4	738	21.1
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	3	130	3.7
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	900	25.7
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,957	56.0
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	140	4.0
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	1	80	2.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	480	13.7
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	5	623	17.8
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	4	449	12.8
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	16	1,891	54.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	259	7.4
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	70	16,636

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 34,966. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (16,636) include 47.6% 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.