Crawford County, Pennsylvania

Denominational Groups, 2000

6,903	16,252		13,030	543	53,638
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.
[More information on the data sources]

Reports

Religious Bodies	Theology	Congregations	Adherents	% Change
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+796	500.6%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	+1	+58	126.1%
Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+45	125.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	+252	94.7%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+53	40.5%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+17	37.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+224	31.2%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	-1	+57	19.4%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+13	5.7%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+34	2.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	+1	+159	1.2%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	-217	-5.7%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	+1	-188	-8.8%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-4	-730	-8.9%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-87	-10.1%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-14	-11.4%
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	-19	-20.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-119	-25.5%
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches	Evangelical Protestant	0	-19	-31.7%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	-165	-39.8%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-242	-40.7%
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	+5	-1,086	-41.0%
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-165	-42.3%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-1	-786	-44.7%
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-100	-48.1%
	Totals:	0	-2,229	-5.8%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 86,169; in 2000 it was 90,366. The total population changed 4.9%. The adherent totals for 1990 (38,848) represent 45.1% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (36,728) include 40.6% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 25 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 25 groups had 38,207 adherents in 1990 and 35,978 adherents in 2000, for a change of -5.8%

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.

[More information on these data sources]