Geauga County, Ohio

Denominational Groups, 2000

7,672	9,082		25,548	524	48,069
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.
[More information on the data sources]

Reports

Religious Bodies	Theology	Congregations	Adherents	Adherence Rate^†
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	52	4,004	44.1
Catholic Church	Catholic	9	25,548	281.1
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	8	2,553	28.1
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	6	2,347	25.8
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	4	524	5.8
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	3	744	8.2
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	3	1,560	17.2
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	3	445	4.9
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	2	498	5.5
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	2	612	6.7
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	332	3.7
General Association of Regular Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	273	3.0
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	369	4.1
Mennonite; Other Groups	Evangelical Protestant	2	86	1.0
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	2	1,051	11.6
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	2	253	2.8
Buddhism	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	1	224	2.5
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	52	0.6
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	1	73	0.8
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection	Evangelical Protestant	1	10	0.1
Conservative Mennonite Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	176	1.9
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	735	8.1
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	22	0.2
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	46	0.5
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	243	2.7
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	20	0.2
Bahá'í	Other Theology	0	26	0.3
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	115	42,826
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		47,466

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 81,129; in 2000 it was 90,895. The total population changed 12.0%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (42,826) include 47.1% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (47,466) include 52.2% of the population.

Source

^*The “Unadjusted Totals” come from the 1990 and 2000 data collected by representatives of the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). While quite comprehensive, this data excludes most of the historically African-American denominations and some other major groups. As a result, these numbers will be an underestimate of the total adherence rate, particularly in areas with a large African-American population. The 2000 data included 149 religious groups and the final results are published in Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Copyright © 2002, All rights reserved. The 1990 data included 132 groups and the final results are published in Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990 Copyright © 1990, All rights reserved. Published by Glenmary Research Center, 1312 Fifth Ave., North, Nashville, TN 37208. www.glenmary.org/grc [More information on the data collection]

^**The “Adjusted Totals” include all adherents in the denominations counted by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and estimates adherent totals for the historically African-American denominations and other religious groups not listed in the ASARB totals. An article by Roger Finke and Christopher P. Scheitle (2005) reviews how these estimates were computed.

^†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.

[More information on the data source]