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Fairfield County, Ohio

Denominational Groups, 2000

10,778 18,641   14,314 1,196 77,830
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 39 11,798 114.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 17 4,750 45.9
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 7 1,427 13.8
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 6 735 7.1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 6 1,615 15.6
Catholic Church Catholic 5 6,822 65.9
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 5 1,761 17.0
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 4 1,467 14.2
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 4 410 4.0
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 3 395 3.8
Church of the United Brethren in Christ Evangelical Protestant 3 908 8.8
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 3 1,206 11.7
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 2 150 1.5
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 2 364 3.5
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant 2 221 2.1
Primitive Baptists Associations Evangelical Protestant 1 11 0.1
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 23 0.2
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 95 0.9
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 1 n.a. n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 1 150 1.5
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 108 1.0
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 1 46 0.4
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 1 50 0.5
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 1 389 3.8
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 1 n.a. n.a.
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 1 47 0.5
Old Order Amish Church Evangelical Protestant 1 50 0.5
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 57 0.6
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 0 1,216 11.8
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 396 3.8
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 121 36,667  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 103,461. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (36,667) include 35.4% 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.