Juniata County, Pennsylvania

Denominational Groups, 2000

3,720	7,394		335		11,372
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	1	292	14.2
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	2	214	10.4
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	239	11.6
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	52	2.5
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	1	88	4.3
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	1	44	2.1
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	5	868	42.1
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	94	4.6
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	3	392	19.0
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	600	29.1
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	90	4.4
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	1	91	4.4
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	10	2,650	128.5
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	7	1,149	55.7
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	2	170	8.2
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	25	4,500	218.2
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	68	11,533

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 20,625. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (11,533) include 55.9% 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.