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	+1	+14,114	385.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+2,270	31.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+2,251	137.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+2,110	n.a.
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+1,064	132.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+802	n.a.
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	+1	+529	197.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+457	1269.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-2	+385	52.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+1	+367	n.a.
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+1	+351	51.0%
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+172	n.a.
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+161	n.a.
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+92	n.a.
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+82	n.a.
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+78	n.a.
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+73	n.a.
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+1	+50	n.a.
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+32	3.0%
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+11	n.a.
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	0	-75	-50.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-96	-54.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-110	-31.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	-128	-2.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-695	-29.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-4	-775	-23.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	-1	-775	-45.0%
	Totals:	+16	+22,797	+77.4%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 99,276; in 2000 it was 158,383. The total population changed 39.0%. The adherent totals for 1980 (29,893) represent 30.1% of the 1980 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 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 27 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 27 groups had 29,443 adherents in 1980 and 52,240 adherents in 2000, for a change of 77.4%

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 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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