Denton County, Texas

Denominational Groups, 2000

78,857	29,785		27,580	13,114	283,640
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
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+8	+4,516	325.1%
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-173	-43.6%
Catholic Church	Catholic	+2	+12,420	81.9%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	+2	+672	62.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+40	10.4%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-7	-2.5%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+7	+2,838	76.6%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+625	90.3%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+871	19.2%
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+26	11.7%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	+981	71.8%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+35	41.2%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+1,010	60.3%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	-2	+2,250	78.9%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+1	-3,567	-97.9%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+905	36.5%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	0	+18	15.7%
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-104	-32.5%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	-455	-18.4%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+351	322.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+24	13.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+16	+14,859	38.4%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	+1	+425	425.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	+191	78.9%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	+4	+5,947	42.3%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+28	25.0%
	Totals:	+43	+44,726	+46.4%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 273,525; in 2000 it was 432,976. The total population changed 58.3%. The adherent totals for 1990 (103,024) represent 37.7% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (149,336) include 34.5% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 26 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 26 groups had 96,420 adherents in 1990 and 141,146 adherents in 2000, for a change of 46.4%

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 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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