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	% Change
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-36	-3.8%
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-21	-15.3%
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+20,314	118.7%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	-151	-40.8%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	-1	-0.8%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-7	-6.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+4	+766	75.1%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	+19	10.7%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+651	31.4%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	+303	25.4%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+3	4.2%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	-1	-159	-9.6%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	0	+1,500	150.0%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	0	0.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+137	17.7%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-298	-59.4%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	-535	-33.5%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-206	-43.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+23	27.7%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+2	-1,591	-9.3%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	-17	-13.5%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-1	-22	-3.3%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	+2	+31	0.4%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-26	-25.7%
	Totals:	+4	+20,677	+37.6%

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 adherent totals for 1990 (60,412) represent 49.6% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (77,124) include 50.6% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 24 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 24 groups had 54,923 adherents in 1990 and 75,600 adherents in 2000, for a change of 37.6%

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 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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