Travis County, Texas

Denominational Groups, 2000

122,650	63,038	1,073	165,810	22,466	437,243
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	23	4,244	7.4
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	93	0.2
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	25,747	44.7
Catholic Church	Catholic	29	84,424	146.5
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	81	0.1
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	25	0.0
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	10	2,636	4.6
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	683	1.2
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	83	0.1
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	3	n.a.	n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	2	112	0.2
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	2	149	0.3
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	1	54	0.1
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	1	38	0.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	6	2,867	5.0
Church of the Lutheran Confession	Evangelical Protestant	1	9	0.0
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	6	999	1.7
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	39	7,228	12.5
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,676	2.9
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	16	9,615	16.7
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	319	0.6
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	18	11,412	19.8
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	39	0.1
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	24	0.0
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	221	0.4
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	7	5,021	8.7
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	4	4,025	7.0
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	65	0.1
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	3	3,687	6.4
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	12	8,470	14.7
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	2	43	0.1
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	48	0.1
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	4	432	0.8
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	17	8,985	15.6
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	162	0.3
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	157	0.3
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	1	37	0.1
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,037	1.8
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	62	72,367	125.6
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	2	558	1.0
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	3	647	1.1
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	33	19,825	34.4
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	125	0.2
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	2	281	0.5
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	339	278,750

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 576,407. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (278,750) include 48.4% 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.