Asotin County, Washington

Denominational Groups, 2000

3,534	1,920		1,980	832	12,285
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
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+1,955	1207.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	-340	-15.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	+131	52.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-250	-77.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+2	+812	n.a.
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	-21	-47.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-333	-55.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	0	-65	-70.0%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+231	1540.0%
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+70	n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	+2	+776	n.a.
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+103	53.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+116	74.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	-281	-37.0%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+200	n.a.
	Totals:	+11	+3,104	+62.9%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 16,823; in 2000 it was 20,551. The total population changed 16.7%. The adherent totals for 1980 (5,110) represent 30.4% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (8,266) include 40.2% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 15 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 15 groups had 4,936 adherents in 1980 and 8,040 adherents in 2000, for a change of 62.9%

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 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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