Jefferson County, Pennsylvania

Denominational Groups, 2000

4,142	10,847		9,841	217	20,885
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
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+312	199.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+2	+215	n.a.
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+187	38.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	+156	33.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+138	103.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	+114	38.0%
Churches of God, General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+74	n.a.
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+29	24.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+17	7.0%
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+9	n.a.
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+6	3.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-21	-18.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-26	-15.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-41	-64.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	-80	-13.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	-1	-84	-8.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	0	-157	-27.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	0	-220	-69.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-600	-48.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-4	-1,314	-36.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-3	-1,709	-21.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	-3	-4,733	-32.0%
	Totals:	3	-7,728	-23.7%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 48,303; in 2000 it was 45,932. The total population changed -0.3%. The adherent totals for 1980 (32,681) represent 67.7% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (25,047) include 54.5% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 22 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 22 groups had 32,661 adherents in 1980 and 24,933 adherents in 2000, for a change of -23.7%

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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