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Benton County, Washington

Denominational Groups, 2000

15,122 13,233   18,056 11,175 84,889
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
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 3 689 6.3
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean) Evangelical Protestant 1 43 0.4
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 5 1,167 10.7
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 1 26 0.2
Catholic Church Catholic 4 18,016 164.6
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 1 235 2.2
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 4 910 8.3
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 68 0.6
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 1 152 1.4
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 1 405 3.7
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 2 156 1.4
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 15 6,598 60.3
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 4 809 7.4
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 6 636 5.8
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 1 355 3.2
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 3 1,380 12.6
Evangelical Covenant Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 52 0.5
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 5 2,694 24.6
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 1 57 0.5
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 4 1,339 12.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 8 2,563 23.4
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 3 599 5.5
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 7 4,251 38.8
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 43 0.4
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 1 73 0.7
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 9 5,203 47.5
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 110 1.0
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 94 48,629  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 109,444. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (48,629) include 44.4% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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.