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	% Change
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+2,419	472.0%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+1	+2,403	402.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	+1	+388	129.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+1	+403	105.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+96	60.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+202	53.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	+55	36.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+107	36.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+10	17.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	+8	10.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+3	-13	-2.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-76	-4.0%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	0	-7	-12.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-2	-587	-14.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-1	-720	-18.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	+2	-321	-22.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	+1	-12,222	-25.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-3	-108	-39.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-54	-49.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	0	-100	-81.0%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+9	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	+1	+201	n.a.
	Totals:	+8	-7,907	-12.1%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 115,534; in 2000 it was 146,571. The total population changed 11.2%. The adherent totals for 1980 (65,499) represent 56.7% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (58,345) include 39.8% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 22 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 22 groups had 65,499 adherents in 1980 and 57,592 adherents in 2000, for a change of -12.1%

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 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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