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Nueces County, Texas

Denominational Groups, 2000

61,404 21,741 381 86,384 4,707 139,028
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 2 50 0.2
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 10 2,599 9.7
Catholic Church Catholic 31 68,178 254.2
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 7 2,164 8.1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 2 81 0.3
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 3 612 2.3
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 1 38 0.1
Church of God (Seventh Day) Evangelical Protestant 1 28 0.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 4 1,295 4.8
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 5 463 1.7
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 24 3,691 13.8
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 7 3,730 13.9
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 1 83 0.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 6 2,700 10.1
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 1 135 0.5
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 1 28 0.1
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 3 264 1.0
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 2 552 2.1
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 5 2,282 8.5
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 11 3,870 14.4
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 850 3.2
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 3 356 1.3
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 47 42,995 160.3
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 55 0.2
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 2 163 0.6
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 17 12,043 44.9
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 93 0.4
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 199 149,398  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 268,215. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (149,398) include 55.7% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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.