Perry County, Pennsylvania

Denominational Groups, 2000

3,313	10,898		1,860	291	27,240
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
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-337	-31.8%
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-11	-5.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	+1	+451	32.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+527	351.3%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-14	-29.8%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	+49	20.7%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-192	-49.9%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	0	0.0%
Churches of God, General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-45	-5.6%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	0	n.a.	n.a.
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-11	-9.3%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-409	-10.2%
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+104	69.3%
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	-41	-52.6%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-1	-38	-4.6%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-22	-24.4%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	-278	-17.6%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-1	-512	-9.1%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+13	23.2%
	Totals:	0	-766	-4.5%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 41,172; in 2000 it was 43,602. The total population changed 5.9%. The adherent totals for 1990 (18,081) represent 43.9% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (16,362) include 37.5% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 18 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 18 groups had 16,837 adherents in 1990 and 16,071 adherents in 2000, for a change of -4.5%

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.

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