Harris County, Texas

Denominational Groups, 2000

696,597	278,251	8,302	618,649	111,412	1,687,367
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^†
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	314	395,152	140.2
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	149	33,931	12.0
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	138	165,055	58.6
Catholic Church	Catholic	108	524,251	186.0
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	97	25,892	9.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	56	38,585	13.7
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	50	32,537	11.6
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	43	35,705	12.7
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	39	15,552	5.5
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	39	17,967	6.4
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	32	6,036	2.1
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	26	5,359	1.9
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	23	7,511	2.7
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	22	33,325	11.8
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	19	2,113	0.8
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	17	6,550	2.3
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	16	8,675	3.1
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	15	1,582	0.6
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	14	2,438	0.9
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	14	36,061	12.8
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	13	n.a.	n.a.
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	11	3,907	1.4
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,551	0.6
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	9	861	0.3
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	6	228	0.1
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	6	324	0.1
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,076	0.4
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	5	277	0.1
Primitive Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	5	284	0.1
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	5	834	0.3
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	5	363	0.1
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	5	1,993	0.7
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,108	0.4
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	4	1,532	0.5
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	4	135	0.1
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	4	273	0.1
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	3	164	0.1
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	2	531	0.2
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	2	97	0.0
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	159	0.1
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	43	0.0
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	391	0.1
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch	Orthodox	2	900	0.3
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	161	0.1
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	36	0.0
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	327	0.1
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	30	0.0
Church of the Lutheran Confession	Evangelical Protestant	1	61	0.0
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	526	0.2
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	192	0.1
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	36	0.0
Interstate & Foreign Landmark Missionary Baptists Association	Evangelical Protestant	1	76	0.0
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	371	0.1
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses	Orthodox	0	87	0.0
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	230,194	81.7
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	1,361	1,643,405

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 2,818,199. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (1,643,405) include 58.3% 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.