Gregg County, Texas

Denominational Groups, 2000

55,240	16,128		8,430	1,611	29,970
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^†
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	5	726	6.5
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	12	1,559	14.0
Bahá'í	Other Theology	0	30	0.3
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,697	15.2
Catholic Church	Catholic	3	8,430	75.7
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	156	1.4
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	7	2,261	20.3
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	277	2.5
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	3	116	1.0
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	8	811	7.3
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	1	34	0.3
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	4	1,466	13.2
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	3	661	5.9
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	27	5,542	49.8
Community of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	48	0.4
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	690	6.2
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	4	1,675	15.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	441	4.0
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	550	4.9
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	1,900	17.1
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	1	50	0.5
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	1	100	0.9
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	2	267	2.4
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	32	0.3
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	6	2,082	18.7
Primitive Baptist Churches--Old Line	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Reformed Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	227	2.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	157	1.4
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	28	39,740	356.8
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	15	0.1
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	1	519	4.7
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	11	9,101	81.7
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	49	0.4
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	151	81,409
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		105,003

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 104,948; in 2000 it was 111,379. The total population changed 6.1%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (81,409) include 73.1% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (105,003) include 94.3% 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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