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.
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Reports

Religious Bodies	Theology	Congregations	Adherents	% Change
Catholic Church	Catholic	+1	+8,071	46.2%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	+2	+1,336	596.4%
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+271	276.5%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+269	427.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	+260	12.5%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	-1	+80	12.2%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+46	170.4%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	+39	6.8%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	+31	3.0%
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches	Evangelical Protestant	0	+8	18.2%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+7	1.6%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+5	0.7%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	0	0.0%
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection	Evangelical Protestant	0	-7	-41.2%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-14	-5.4%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-61	-10.4%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	0	-251	-49.8%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	0	-253	-53.0%
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-413	-90.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	-2	-696	-58.3%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-1	-725	-22.1%
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	+2	-3,496	-46.6%
	Totals:	+3	+4,507	+11.9%

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 adherent totals for 1990 (40,705) represent 50.2% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (42,826) include 47.1% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 22 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 22 groups had 37,736 adherents in 1990 and 42,243 adherents in 2000, for a change of 11.9%

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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