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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 % Change
American Baptist Association, The Evangelical Protestant -1 -340 -14.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant -33 -11,346 -89.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +8 +7,607 33.0%
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant -5 -3,779 -21.0%
Catholic Church Catholic +13 +350,003 268.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +112 170.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant -3 -4,766 -22.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +3 +2,793 254.0%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 0 -30 -40.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant +1 -309 -46.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +12 +3,361 170.0%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +4 +140 n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +19 +5,358 80.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +8 +2,202 60.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -8 +6,737 18.0%
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant +2 +454 118.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant -1 +1,716 7.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +143 174.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant +4 -235 -2.0%
Evangelical Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant +1 +195 n.a.
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 0 -200 -53.0%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant +1 +19 n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +1 +1,926 n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +6 +12,525 n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +25 +25,640 n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +4 -94 -10.0%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant +3 +415 160.0%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +13 +30,386 386.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant +3 +749 9.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant +1 +55 n.a.
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant +2 +486 657.0%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox +2 +580 n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant +8 +370 n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -52 -5,011 -15.0%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +6 +5,692 1586.0%
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant +1 +95 n.a.
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +1,923 62.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +16 +4,575 161.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +108 +3,281 1.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology -1 -173 -14.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant +1 -648 -34.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -5 -6,776 -6.0%
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant +1 +2,537 317.0%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +120 n.a.
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +154 28.0%
  Totals: +173 +438,642 +58.3%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 1,556,390; in 2000 it was 2,218,899. The total population changed 19.8%. The adherent totals for 1980 (755,807) represent 48.6% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (1,222,752) include 55.1% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 45 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 45 groups had 751,785 adherents in 1980 and 1,190,427 adherents in 2000, for a change of 58.3%

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 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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