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	303	281,984	127.1
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	110	45,037	20.3
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	94	30,891	13.9
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	94	106,100	47.8
Catholic Church	Catholic	50	480,510	216.6
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	42	27,923	12.6
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	38	27,740	12.5
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	38	17,442	7.9
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	36	14,029	6.3
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	32	12,066	5.4
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	29	5,332	2.4
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	28	9,981	4.5
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	26	7,411	3.3
National Primitive Baptist Convention, USA	Evangelical Protestant	26	1,537	0.7
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	25	25,640	11.6
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	23	5,856	2.6
Buddhism	Other Theology	20	n.a.	n.a.
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	18	9,349	4.2
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	17	38,250	17.2
Muslim Estimate	Other Theology	13	22,723	10.2
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	12	3,891	1.8
Bahá'í	Other Theology	11	1,511	0.7
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	10	6,051	2.7
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	9	850	0.4
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	9	2,170	1.0
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	8	370	0.2
Hindu	Other Theology	7	n.a.	n.a.
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	6	675	0.3
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	6	12,525	5.6
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	5	1,279	0.6
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	5	1,416	0.6
Southwide Baptist Fellowship	Evangelical Protestant	5	n.a.	n.a.
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	5	5,049	2.3
Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, American Diocese of the	Orthodox	4	1,325	0.6
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	4	140	0.1
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	4	261	0.1
Community of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	4	489	0.2
Sikh	Other Theology	3	n.a.	n.a.
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	838	0.4
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	3	363	0.2
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	178	0.1
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	3	1,044	0.5
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	3	178	0.1
Primitive Baptist Churches--Old Line	Evangelical Protestant	3	n.a.	n.a.
International Council of Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	3	913	0.4
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	3	560	0.3
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	3	711	0.3
Vineyard USA	Evangelical Protestant	2	216	0.1
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	2	580	0.3
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	225	0.1
Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, The	Orthodox	2	370	0.2
Malankara Archdiocese of the Syrian Orthodox Church in North America	Orthodox	2	600	0.3
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	2	3,337	1.5
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	95	0.0
Calvary Chapel Fellowship Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	120	0.1
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	46	0.0
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Etchmiadzin	Orthodox	1	385	0.2
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	19	0.0
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	55	0.0
Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Reformed Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Jain	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
International Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	1,946	0.9
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	49	0.0
Zoroastrian	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	195	0.1
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	1,926	0.9
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	1,233	1,222,752
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		1,596,368

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 1,852,810; in 2000 it was 2,218,899. The total population changed 19.8%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (1,222,752) include 55.1% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (1,596,368) include 71.9% 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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