Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania

Denominational Groups, 2000

1,632	7,429	64	5,214	263	27,636
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	18	7,639	189.2
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	33	5,539	137.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	7	556	13.8
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	3	544	13.5
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	4	514	12.7
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	1	346	8.6
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	3	270	6.7
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	262	6.5
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	182	4.5
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	134	3.3
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	94	2.3
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	76	1.9
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	1	74	1.8
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	51	1.3
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	44	1.1
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	42	1.0
General Six Principle Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	25	0.6
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	2	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	81	16,392

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 40,380. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (16,392) include 40.6% 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.