Washington County, Vermont

Denominational Groups, 2000

1,342	6,656	46	15,123	1,441	33,431
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
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+1	+560	n.a.
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+256	1506.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+205	n.a.
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+200	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	+158	53.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+83	88.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+52	n.a.
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	+1	+21	n.a.
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	0	+5	11.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	0	0.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	0	0.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-14	-13.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	+1	-17	-2.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	-54	-36.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	-191	-33.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	-195	-42.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	0	-250	-43.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	+1	-341	-13.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	-2	-943	-6.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-2	-1,309	-32.0%
	Totals:	+10	+-1,774	-6.8%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 52,393; in 2000 it was 58,039. The total population changed 5.7%. The adherent totals for 1980 (26,313) represent 50.2% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (24,608) include 42.4% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 20 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 20 groups had 26,209 adherents in 1980 and 24,435 adherents in 2000, for a change of -6.8%

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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