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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 3 704 6.3
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean) Evangelical Protestant 1 43 0.4
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 7 1,421 12.6
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 1 28 0.3
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 304 2.7
Catholic Church Catholic 5 13,930 123.8
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 2 244 2.2
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 4 1,131 10.1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 53 0.5
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 1 326 2.9
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 1 n.a. n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 1 196 1.7
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 3 214 1.9
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 1 35 0.3
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 20 8,554 76.0
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 4 917 8.2
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 6 590 5.2
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 3 n.a. n.a.
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 3 907 8.1
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 1 70 0.6
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 5 2,912 25.9
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 1 22 0.2
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 4 0.0
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 1 198 1.8
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 1 110 1.0
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 4 1,345 12.0
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant 1 91 0.8
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 8 2,468 21.9
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 3 773 6.9
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 7 4,360 38.7
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 133 1.2
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 1 198 1.8
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 9 5,619 49.9
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 251 2.2
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 112 48,151  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 112,560. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (48,151) include 42.8% of the total population in 1990.

Source

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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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.