Beaver County, Utah

Denominational Groups, 2000

50	35		100	4,389	1,431
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	% Change
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	+17	94.4%
Catholic Church	Catholic	-2	+42	72.4%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+3	+593	15.6%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-3	-14.3%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	0	-43	n.a.
	Totals:	+1	+606	+15.4%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 4,765; in 2000 it was 6,005. The total population changed 26.0%. The adherent totals for 1990 (3,936) represent 82.6% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (4,574) include 76.2% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 5 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 5 groups had 3,936 adherents in 1990 and 4,542 adherents in 2000, for a change of 15.4%

Sources

The 2000 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and includes statistics for 149 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Dale E. Jones, Sherri Doty, Clifford Grammich, James E. Horsch, Richard Houseal, Mac Lynn, John P. Marcum, Kenneth M. Sanchagrin and Richard H. Taylor supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States, 2000, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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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