Anderson County, Texas

Denominational Groups, 2000

21,817	3,498		4,678	256	24,860
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	949	19.8
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	8	772	16.1
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,260	26.2
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	3,630	75.6
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	123	2.6
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	1	34	0.7
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	2	76	1.6
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	1	54	1.1
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	13	1,562	32.5
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	338	7.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	96	2.0
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	25	12,632	263.0
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	6	497	10.4
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	1	309	6.4
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	2	390	8.1
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	16	3,572	74.4
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	85	26,294

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 48,024. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (26,294) include 54.8% 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.