Brazoria County, Texas

Denominational Groups, 2000

57,627	19,170		48,342	3,362	113,266
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^†
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	900	5.3
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	14	3,027	17.9
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	31	0.2
Catholic Church	Catholic	14	21,854	128.9
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	5	718	4.2
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	1	110	0.7
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	3	1,030	6.1
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	5	491	2.9
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	23	3,775	22.3
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	4	1,897	11.2
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	6	2,036	12.0
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	27	0.2
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	121	0.7
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	3	577	3.4
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	10	2,744	16.2
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	162	1.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	36	0.2
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	41	34,829	205.4
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	20	11,829	69.8
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	42	0.3
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	159	86,236

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 169,587. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (86,236) include 50.9% 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.