Dawson County, Texas

Denominational Groups, 2000

7,881	1,338		2,714	6	3,046
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^†
Catholic Church	Catholic	2	3,000	209.1
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	4	367	25.6
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	351	24.5
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	216	15.1
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	2	266	18.5
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	6	753	52.5
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	1	12	0.8
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	101	7.0
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	13	7,678	535.1
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	1	67	4.7
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	1	11	0.8
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	1	229	16.0
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	5	1,340	93.4
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	39	14,391

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 14,349. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (14,391) include 100.3% 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.