Canadian County, Oklahoma

Denominational Groups, 2000

28,121	10,826		6,392	967	41,391
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
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+2,713	177.2%
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+2,146	50.5%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	+424	32.9%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+122	18.3%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-24	-54.5%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-37	-32.5%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+1	+664	256.4%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	+122	9.3%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-175	-9.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	+92	71.3%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+304	81.3%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-31	-7.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+56	4.4%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+139	63.2%
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+221	143.5%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	+52	19.6%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-19	-22.1%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+2,178	14.5%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	+2	+1,338	20.4%
	Totals:	+12	+10,285	+28.6%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 74,409; in 2000 it was 87,697. The total population changed 17.9%. The adherent totals for 1990 (36,819) represent 49.5% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (46,306) include 52.8% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 19 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 19 groups had 35,939 adherents in 1990 and 46,224 adherents in 2000, for a change of 28.6%

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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