Snyder County, Pennsylvania

Denominational Groups, 2000

3,039	13,222		1,302	310	19,673
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^†
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	27	4,511	134.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	19	6,893	205.3
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	11	2,911	86.7
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	470	14.0
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	78	2.3
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	132	3.9
Catholic Church	Catholic	1	1,004	29.9
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	29	0.9
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	37	1.1
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	1	376	11.2
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	67	16,441

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 33,584. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (16,441) include 49.0% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

^†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.