Tarrant County, Texas

Denominational Groups, 2000

406,437	151,289	1,948	166,550	32,303	687,692
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^†
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	167	0.1
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	486	0.4
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	2	1,250	1.1
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	64	19,748	16.9
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	26	0.0
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	9	3,248	2.8
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	59,210	50.6
Catholic Church	Catholic	28	100,077	85.5
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	5	255	0.2
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	3	286	0.2
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	23	14,431	12.3
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,565	1.3
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	113	0.1
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	4	n.a.	n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	2	310	0.3
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	10	2,685	2.3
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	19	0.0
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	2	79	0.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	22	8,110	6.9
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	18	4,149	3.6
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	94	30,636	26.2
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	6	2,218	1.9
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	23	13,292	11.4
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	63	0.1
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	14	6,553	5.6
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	356	0.3
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	40	0.0
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	32	0.0
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	2	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	14	11,810	10.1
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	29	17,047	14.6
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	5	132	0.1
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	352	0.3
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	4	4,392	3.8
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	14	9,272	7.9
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	2	74	0.1
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	3	238	0.2
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	55	0.1
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	6	373	0.3
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	27	12,909	11.0
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	4	312	0.3
Primitive Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	1	68	0.1
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	253	0.2
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	1	38	0.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	19	6,079	5.2
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	175	239,563	204.7
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	2	405	0.4
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	2	508	0.4
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	74	83,135	71.1
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	3	382	0.3
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	738	656,801

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 1,170,103. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (656,801) include 56.1% 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.