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Kendall County, Texas

Denominational Groups, 2000

4,341 4,959   5,700 289 8,454
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
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 1 153 10.5
Catholic Church Catholic 2 3,540 242.7
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 2 398 27.3
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 179 12.3
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 2 539 37.0
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 1 95 6.5
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 2 1,075 73.7
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 1 324 22.2
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 5 2,214 151.8
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 2 1,056 72.4
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 19 9,573  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 14,589. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (9,573) include 65.6% 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.