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Clermont County, Ohio

Denominational Groups, 2000

19,847 9,312 130 25,949 416 122,323
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 13 23,370 155.6
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 6 830 5.5
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 456 3.0
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 2 200 1.3
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 12 5,211 34.7
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 2 175 1.2
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 5 752 5.0
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 1 47 0.3
Church of God, Mountain Assembly, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 3 420 2.8
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 10 1,482 9.9
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 5 705 4.7
Churches of God, General Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 80 0.5
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 1 818 5.5
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 2 2,700 18.0
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 676 4.5
Old Regular Baptists Evangelical Protestant 1 125 0.8
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 41 0.3
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 228 1.5
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 19 7,148 47.6
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 3 315 2.1
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 1 627 4.2
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 1 46 0.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 1 444 3.0
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 7 1,006 6.7
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 1 48 0.3
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 30 8,060 53.7
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 2 766 5.1
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 0 2,376 15.8
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 132 59,152  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 150,187. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (59,152) include 39.4% 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.