Collin County, Texas

Denominational Groups, 2000

109,264	44,998	123	89,905	19,568	227,817
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	+5	+852	51.4%
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+365	90.6%
Catholic Church	Catholic	+2	+71,461	387.4%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+106	86.9%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-4	-317	-9.7%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-4	-1,975	-67.9%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	-4	-265	-32.8%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+10	+3,241	98.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-159	-40.1%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+673	15.4%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	-1	+884	28.2%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+105	84.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+1	+570	24.6%
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	-2	+1,900	102.7%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+4,600	126.0%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+3	+3,234	92.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+1,030	65.5%
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-117	-74.5%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-1	+937	35.6%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+141	72.7%
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+381	35.1%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+18	+38,209	94.2%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	-11	-4.8%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	+3	+14,194	89.1%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+80	16.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+59	74.7%
	Totals:	+27	+140,178	+123.8%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 264,036; in 2000 it was 491,675. The total population changed 86.2%. The adherent totals for 1990 (118,899) represent 45.0% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (263,858) include 53.7% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 26 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 26 groups had 113,212 adherents in 1990 and 253,390 adherents in 2000, for a change of 123.8%

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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