Warren County, Ohio

Denominational Groups, 2000

23,807	11,669		17,780	440	104,687
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	0	+9,010	102.7%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+1,940	1141.2%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+1,594	69.4%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+1,169	233.8%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+590	278.3%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-1	+476	22.4%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+407	27.9%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	+293	58.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+1	+248	31.6%
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+172	n.a.
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+23	10.3%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+23	16.7%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+15	19.5%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	0	+14	21.9%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	-2	+13	2.7%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	0	-7	-8.8%
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection	Evangelical Protestant	0	-8	-42.1%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	0	-9	-9.9%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	0	-54	-42.2%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	-70	-1.4%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	-72	-16.4%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	0	-214	-18.4%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-234	-19.4%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-2	-252	-18.4%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	0	-814	-7.8%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+1	-1,751	-97.2%
	Totals:	+5	+12,502	+31.5%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 113,909; in 2000 it was 158,383. The total population changed 39.0%. The adherent totals for 1990 (40,558) represent 35.6% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (53,696) include 33.9% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 26 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 26 groups had 39,658 adherents in 1990 and 52,160 adherents in 2000, for a change of 31.5%

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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