Clinton County, Ohio

Denominational Groups, 2000

5,269	5,724		2,481	229	26,840
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	14	3,582	101.1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	7	2,373	67.0
Catholic Church	Catholic	3	2,250	63.5
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	10	1,445	40.8
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	6	952	26.9
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	3	560	15.8
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	1	506	14.3
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	1	486	13.7
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	2	473	13.4
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	338	9.5
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	3	261	7.4
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	2	247	7.0
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	233	6.6
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	200	5.7
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	1	197	5.6
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	167	4.7
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	75	2.1
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	66	1.9
Primitive Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	1	43	1.2
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	1	37	1.0
Old Regular Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	22	0.6
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	63	14,513

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 35,415. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (14,513) include 41.0% 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.