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Clackamas County, Oregon

Denominational Groups, 2000

35,945 18,470 1,016 21,303 15,017 246,640
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
Catholic Church Catholic 9 16,192 58.1
Advent Christian Church Evangelical Protestant 2 86 0.3
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 15 3,017 10.8
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 306 1.1
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 4 520 1.9
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 100 0.4
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 13 3,663 13.1
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 1 46 0.2
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 1 215 0.8
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 8 1,312 4.7
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 7 662 2.4
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 14 n.a. n.a.
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 9 0.0
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 2 420 1.5
Evangelical Methodist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 53 0.2
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 1 35 0.1
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 5,100 18.3
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 2 4,400 15.8
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 6 2,412 8.7
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 8 2,757 9.9
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant 3 870 3.1
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant 2 225 0.8
Primitive Baptists Associations Evangelical Protestant 1 21 0.1
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 9 4,130 14.8
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 8 1,473 5.3
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 160 0.6
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 6 1,554 5.6
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 1 593 2.1
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body) Mainline Protestant 1 25 0.1
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 7 2,574 9.2
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 13 6,844 24.5
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 204 0.7
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 1 83 0.3
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 8 3,026 10.9
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 6 974 3.5
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 13 3,716 13.3
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 2 n.a. n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 20 8,877 31.8
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 0 1,396 5.0
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 2 128 0.5
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 202 78,178  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 278,850. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (78,178) include 28.0% 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.