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County Membership Report
Dallas County, Texas
Denominational Groups, 2000
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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
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| Religious Bodies |
Theology |
Congregations |
Adherents |
Adherence Rate† |
| Southern Baptist Convention |
Evangelical Protestant |
209 |
321,341 |
173.4 |
| Catholic Church |
Catholic |
42 |
207,535 |
112.0 |
| Black Baptists Estimate |
Evangelical Protestant |
n.a. |
154,548 |
83.4 |
| United Methodist Church, The |
Mainline Protestant |
99 |
112,771 |
60.9 |
| Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
116 |
47,468 |
25.6 |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) |
Mainline Protestant |
50 |
35,022 |
18.9 |
| Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
35 |
34,346 |
18.5 |
| Assemblies of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
91 |
27,900 |
15.1 |
| Episcopal Church |
Mainline Protestant |
39 |
27,330 |
14.8 |
| Jewish Estimate |
Other Theology |
11 |
24,672 |
13.3 |
| Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) |
Mainline Protestant |
38 |
19,042 |
10.3 |
| Independent, Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
17 |
18,725 |
10.1 |
| Baptist Missionary Association of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
36 |
17,124 |
9.2 |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The |
Other Theology |
29 |
11,080 |
6.0 |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
27 |
10,622 |
5.7 |
| Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
19 |
9,713 |
5.2 |
| American Baptist Churches in the USA |
Mainline Protestant |
10 |
6,265 |
3.4 |
| Church of the Nazarene |
Evangelical Protestant |
25 |
5,235 |
2.8 |
| Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) |
Evangelical Protestant |
28 |
3,956 |
2.1 |
| Christian Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
11 |
3,575 |
1.9 |
| Seventh-day Adventist Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
16 |
3,529 |
1.9 |
| United Church of Christ |
Mainline Protestant |
4 |
1,488 |
0.8 |
| Presbyterian Church in America |
Evangelical Protestant |
8 |
1,305 |
0.7 |
| Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations |
Other Theology |
4 |
1,263 |
0.7 |
| Christian Churches and Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
8 |
1,139 |
0.6 |
| African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
1,088 |
0.6 |
| Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch |
Orthodox |
2 |
900 |
0.5 |
| Salvation Army, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
8 |
796 |
0.4 |
| Cumberland Presbyterian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
778 |
0.4 |
| International Church of the Foursquare Gospel |
Evangelical Protestant |
9 |
747 |
0.4 |
| Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
565 |
0.3 |
| Pentecostal Church of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
10 |
535 |
0.3 |
| Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) |
Evangelical Protestant |
5 |
520 |
0.3 |
| Reformed Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
2 |
507 |
0.3 |
| National Association of Free Will Baptists |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
460 |
0.3 |
| North American Baptist Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
369 |
0.2 |
| Evangelical Methodist Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
348 |
0.2 |
| Free Methodist Church of North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
4 |
241 |
0.1 |
| Christian Reformed Church in North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
205 |
0.1 |
| Mennonite Church USA |
Evangelical Protestant |
5 |
183 |
0.1 |
| Church of God (Seventh Day) |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
162 |
0.1 |
| International Pentecostal Holiness Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
159 |
0.1 |
| Church of God of Prophecy |
Evangelical Protestant |
4 |
157 |
0.1 |
| Christian and Missionary Alliance, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
133 |
0.1 |
| Friends (Quakers) |
Mainline Protestant |
1 |
129 |
0.1 |
| Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses |
Orthodox |
0 |
123 |
0.1 |
| Church of the Lutheran Confession |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
74 |
0.0 |
| Evangelical Lutheran Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
74 |
0.0 |
| Brethren In Christ Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
47 |
0.0 |
| Evangelical Free Church of America, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
50 |
0.0 |
| Primitive Baptists Associations |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
39 |
0.0 |
| Fellowship of Evangelical Bible Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
20 |
0.0 |
| Wesleyan Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
20 |
0.0 |
| Evangelical Presbyterian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
0 |
0.0 |
| Church of Christ, Scientist |
Other Theology |
11 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses |
Orthodox |
1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America |
Orthodox |
1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America |
Orthodox |
1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
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Totals (Unadjusted)*:
| 1,071 |
1,116,423 |
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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.
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