Choctaw County, Oklahoma

Denominational Groups, 2000

8,710	1,261		234		5,137
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^†
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	28	10,534	688.4
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	8	489	32.0
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	8	1,101	72.0
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	4	573	37.5
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	3	125	8.2
Catholic Church	Catholic	3	168	11.0
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	2	119	7.8
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	1	58	3.8
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	1	138	9.0
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	1	160	10.5
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	77	5.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	45	2.9
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	29	1.9
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	599	39.2
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	62	14,215

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 15,302. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (14,215) include 92.9% 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.