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	% Change
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	0	+15	31.9%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+325	216.7%
Catholic Church	Catholic	+1	+7,492	109.8%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+1,166	66.2%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+30	20.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+129	32.7%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+2	+800	205.7%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+427	58.1%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+9	2.2%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	+73	20.1%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+1	+408	8.6%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	0	0	0.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-116	-9.6%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	0	-67	-30.3%
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+26	52.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	-205	-12.7%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+51	47.2%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+118	8.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	+8	0.6%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-3	-1,659	-14.1%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+143	250.9%
	Totals:	+9	+9,173	+27.0%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 103,461; in 2000 it was 122,759. The total population changed 18.7%. The adherent totals for 1990 (36,667) represent 35.4% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (44,929) include 36.6% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 21 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 21 groups had 33,972 adherents in 1990 and 43,145 adherents in 2000, for a change of 27.0%

Sources

The 2000 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and includes statistics for 149 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Dale E. Jones, Sherri Doty, Clifford Grammich, James E. Horsch, Richard Houseal, Mac Lynn, John P. Marcum, Kenneth M. Sanchagrin and Richard H. Taylor supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States, 2000, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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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