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
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-222	-85.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+3,516	483.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	+1	+3,870	153.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	+264	18.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+338	75.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+20	n.a.
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+41	114.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+2	+923	n.a.
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	+332	30.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+649	58.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	-1	-23	-9.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+304	81.0%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	-2	+103	33.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+298	29.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+359	n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+375	n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	-40	-11.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+46	219.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+8,582	99.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	+3	+2,385	43.0%
	Totals:	+22	+22,120	+91.6%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 56,452; in 2000 it was 87,697. The total population changed 17.9%. The adherent totals for 1980 (24,142) represent 42.8% of the 1980 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 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 20 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 20 groups had 24,142 adherents in 1980 and 46,262 adherents in 2000, for a change of 91.6%

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 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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