Carter County, Oklahoma

Denominational Groups, 2000

26,852	7,456		1,513	323	9,477
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^†
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	8	2,555	59.5
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	461	10.7
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	1,113	25.9
Catholic Church	Catholic	2	1,900	44.3
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	17	0.4
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	2	523	12.2
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	127	3.0
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	1	194	4.5
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	12	1,650	38.4
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	1	355	8.3
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	5	240	5.6
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	1	0	0.0
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	151	3.5
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,333	31.1
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	7	536	12.5
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	1	385	9.0
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	92	2.1
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	379	8.8
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	29	18,752	436.9
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	8	6,283	146.4
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	92	37,046

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 42,919. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (37,046) include 86.3% 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.