Dallas County, Texas

Denominational Groups, 2000

465,217	196,245	5,186	480,510	75,594	996,147
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^†
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	209	321,341	173.4
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	116	47,468	25.6
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	99	112,771	60.9
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	91	27,900	15.1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	50	35,022	18.9
Catholic Church	Catholic	42	207,535	112.0
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	39	27,330	14.8
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	38	19,042	10.3
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	36	17,124	9.2
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	35	34,346	18.5
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	29	11,080	6.0
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	28	3,956	2.1
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	27	10,622	5.7
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	25	5,235	2.8
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	19	9,713	5.2
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	17	18,725	10.1
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	16	3,529	1.9
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	11	3,575	1.9
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	11	24,672	13.3
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	11	n.a.	n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	10	535	0.3
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	10	6,265	3.4
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	9	747	0.4
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,139	0.6
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,305	0.7
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	8	796	0.4
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	5	183	0.1
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	5	520	0.3
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	4	157	0.1
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	4	241	0.1
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	4	1,488	0.8
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	4	1,263	0.7
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	133	0.1
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	3	162	0.1
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	3	565	0.3
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	1,088	0.6
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	3	460	0.3
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	778	0.4
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	3	369	0.2
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	50	0.0
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch	Orthodox	2	900	0.5
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	159	0.1
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	2	507	0.3
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	348	0.2
Church of the Lutheran Confession	Evangelical Protestant	1	74	0.0
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	205	0.1
Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	74	0.0
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	47	0.0
Fellowship of Evangelical Bible Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	20	0.0
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	129	0.1
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	20	0.0
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	0	0.0
Primitive Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	1	39	0.0
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses	Orthodox	0	123	0.1
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	154,548	83.4
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	1,071	1,116,423

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 1,852,810. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (1,116,423) include 60.3% of the total population in 1990.

Source

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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^†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.