Windsor County, Vermont

Denominational Groups, 2000

1,187	6,899	50	10,770	1,214	37,298
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
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	+2	+182	700.0%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	0	+105	269.2%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+80	61.5%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	+1	+120	28.8%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	+60	21.1%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+19	7.6%
Catholic Church	Catholic	-2	-658	-5.8%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-1	-265	-8.2%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	-1	-113	-12.2%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-235	-19.7%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-1	-455	-21.1%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	-189	-44.8%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-118	-54.6%
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-160	-57.1%
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	-1	-34	-85.0%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
	Totals:	-5	-1,661	-7.9%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 54,055; in 2000 it was 57,418. The total population changed 6.2%. The adherent totals for 1990 (21,188) represent 39.2% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (20,120) include 35.0% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 15 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 15 groups had 21,055 adherents in 1990 and 19,394 adherents in 2000, for a change of -7.9%

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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