Brazos County, Texas

Denominational Groups, 2000

24,119	12,062	560	37,430	2,953	75,291
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	6	37,430	245.6
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	25	15,480	101.6
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	13	7,144	46.9
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	9	2,727	17.9
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	2,500	16.4
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	7	1,786	11.7
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	2	1,498	9.8
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	3	1,494	9.8
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	2	1,063	7.0
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	5	917	6.0
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	3	913	6.0
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	2	644	4.2
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Etchmiadzin	Orthodox	1	560	3.7
Muslim Estimate	Other Theology	1	500	3.3
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	1	400	2.6
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	273	1.8
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	1	219	1.4
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	4	204	1.3
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	1	197	1.3
Bahá'í	Other Theology	2	158	1.0
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	120	0.8
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	116	0.8
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	1	110	0.7
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	109	0.7
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	106	0.7
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	75	0.5
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	75	0.5
International Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	68	0.5
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	53	0.4
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	51	0.3
National Primitive Baptist Convention, USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	48	0.3
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	42	0.3
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	23	0.2
Community of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	21	0.1
Coptic Orthodox Church	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	107	77,124
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		92,603

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 121,862; in 2000 it was 152,415. The total population changed 25.1%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (77,124) include 50.6% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (92,603) include 60.8% of the population.

Source

^*The “Unadjusted Totals” come from the 1990 and 2000 data collected by representatives of the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). While quite comprehensive, this data excludes most of the historically African-American denominations and some other major groups. As a result, these numbers will be an underestimate of the total adherence rate, particularly in areas with a large African-American population. The 2000 data included 149 religious groups and the final results are published in Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Copyright © 2002, All rights reserved. The 1990 data included 132 groups and the final results are published in Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990 Copyright © 1990, All rights reserved. Published by Glenmary Research Center, 1312 Fifth Ave., North, Nashville, TN 37208. www.glenmary.org/grc [More information on the data collection]

^**The “Adjusted Totals” include all adherents in the denominations counted by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and estimates adherent totals for the historically African-American denominations and other religious groups not listed in the ASARB totals. An article by Roger Finke and Christopher P. Scheitle (2005) reviews how these estimates were computed.

^†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.

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