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Coshocton County, Ohio

Denominational Groups, 2000

3,694 9,007   1,600 1 22,353
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
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 5 943 26.6
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 1 135 3.8
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 32 0.9
Catholic Church Catholic 2 2,008 56.7
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 1 20 0.6
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 2 467 13.2
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 38 1.1
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 2 116 3.3
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 4 684 19.3
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 6 452 12.8
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 1 128 3.6
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 2 727 20.5
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 1 5 0.1
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant 1 40 1.1
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant 2 170 4.8
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 5 1,332 37.6
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 279 7.9
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 65 1.8
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 2 383 10.8
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 3 605 17.1
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 23 6,080 171.6
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 2 222 6.3
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 69 14,931  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 35,427. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (14,931) include 42.1% 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.