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Jefferson County, Texas

Denominational Groups, 2000

75,350 21,222 594 63,931 2,788 88,166
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 27 63,518 265.3
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 14 3,404 14.2
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 4 588 2.5
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 22,412 93.6
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 30 0.1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 3 920 3.8
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 2 196 0.8
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 6 1,510 6.3
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 28 4,742 19.8
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 2 1,550 6.5
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 1 13 0.1
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 6 2,576 10.8
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 1 27 0.1
Primitive Baptists Associations Evangelical Protestant 1 56 0.2
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 2 223 0.9
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 3 381 1.6
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 56 57,044 238.3
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 5 1,354 5.7
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 5 2,723 11.4
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 2 952 4.0
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 5 2,690 11.2
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 1 122 0.5
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 28 19,003 79.4
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 1 n.a. n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 3 1,114 4.7
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 3 630 2.6
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 104 0.4
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 212 187,882  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 239,397. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (187,882) include 78.5% 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.