Northumberland County, Pennsylvania

Denominational Groups, 2000

8,473	27,000	179	20,785	504	37,615
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^†
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	3	759	7.8
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	4	539	5.6
Catholic Church	Catholic	26	24,098	249.0
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	653	6.8
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	105	1.1
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	2	644	6.7
Churches of God, General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	85	0.9
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	5	716	7.4
Evangelical Congregational Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	5	948	9.8
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	198	2.1
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	32	12,810	132.4
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	2	160	1.7
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	155	1.6
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	186	1.9
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	150	1.6
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	9	1,934	20.0
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	209	2.2
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	45	0.5
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	26	6,004	62.0
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	35	10,060	104.0
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,016	10.5
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	171	61,474

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 96,771. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (61,474) include 63.5% 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.