Chittenden County, Vermont

Denominational Groups, 2000

5,276	11,065	201	37,143	4,660	88,226
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^†
Catholic Church	Catholic	19	43,768	332.2
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	12	4,266	32.4
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	12	3,717	28.2
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	7	2,211	16.8
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	7	709	5.4
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	1,095	8.3
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	3	2,880	21.9
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	2	614	4.7
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	166	1.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	2	478	3.6
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	2	90	0.7
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	543	4.1
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	694	5.3
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	65	0.5
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	1	227	1.7
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	1	95	0.7
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	454	3.5
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	45	0.3
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	107	0.8
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	1	11	0.1
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	64	0.5
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	196	1.5
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	83	62,495

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 131,761. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (62,495) include 47.4% 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.