Bell County, Texas

Denominational Groups, 2000

67,875	17,911		25,068	3,152	123,968
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
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+2	5.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+1,649	144.0%
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	0	-3	-3.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	+4	+15,266	156.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-3	+420	28.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+156	195.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	-2	+146	73.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+35	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+2	+1,354	170.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	-458	-39.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+1,528	48.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	+501	39.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+1	+51	3.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+1,064	92.0%
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+222	n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-5	-509	-28.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+420	151.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+15	+21,985	70.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+27	108.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-3	+2,947	36.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+77	83.0%
	Totals:	+27	+46,880	+73.1%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 157,889; in 2000 it was 237,974. The total population changed 24.5%. The adherent totals for 1980 (64,117) represent 40.6% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (114,006) include 47.9% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 21 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 21 groups had 64,117 adherents in 1980 and 110,997 adherents in 2000, for a change of 73.1%

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 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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