Erath County, Texas

Denominational Groups, 2000

13,554	3,275		1,774	334	14,064
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	2,311	82.6
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	3	187	6.7
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	116	4.1
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	1	86	3.1
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	1	89	3.2
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	11	1,764	63.0
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	300	10.7
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	236	8.4
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	150	5.4
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	40	1.4
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	22	10,168	363.3
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	2	314	11.2
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	2	234	8.4
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	1	169	6.0
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	10	2,638	94.2
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	235	8.4
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	61	19,037

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 27,991. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (19,037) include 68.0% 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.