Hamilton County, Ohio

Denominational Groups, 2000

72,135	85,014	2,325	226,670	27,784	431,375
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^†
Catholic Church	Catholic	96	267,806	309.2
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	62,089	71.7
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	72	36,358	42.0
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	50	25,496	29.4
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	40	17,195	19.9
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	33	15,503	17.9
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	24	13,709	15.8
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	22	10,529	12.2
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	28	10,045	11.6
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	23	8,854	10.2
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	11	6,684	7.7
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	7	6,261	7.2
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	20	6,018	7.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	15	5,570	6.4
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	12	5,176	6.0
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	21	3,327	3.8
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	14	3,028	3.5
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	16	2,721	3.1
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	6	2,312	2.7
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	5	2,105	2.4
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	4	1,851	2.1
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,740	2.0
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	13	1,370	1.6
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	4	995	1.2
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	805	0.9
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	7	547	0.6
Church of God, Mountain Assembly, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	8	517	0.6
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	448	0.5
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	2	360	0.4
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	3	341	0.4
United Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	256	0.3
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	255	0.3
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	4	214	0.3
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	217	0.3
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	210	0.2
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	125	0.1
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	1	76	0.1
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	1	73	0.1
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	51	0.1
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	1	45	0.1
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	45	0.1
Reformed Episcopal Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	30	0.0
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	25	0.0
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	6	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	599	521,382

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 866,228. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (521,382) include 60.2% 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.