Grant County, Washington

Denominational Groups, 2000

8,506	5,062		12,980	5,723	42,427
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	0	+73	4.3%
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	-96	-25.8%
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+6,466	99.3%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+672	181.6%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	-6	-4.0%
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	0	-49	-33.6%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+44	122.2%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	-844	-12.9%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	+137	30.9%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+71	34.1%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	0	n.a.	n.a.
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-211	-41.6%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+38	49.4%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+394	20.8%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+127	39.4%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	0	+66	143.5%
Hutterian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	0	+60	42.9%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+109	26.0%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+167	388.4%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-247	-24.7%
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	0	+2	2.7%
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+55	67.1%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-1	-125	-12.2%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-51	-8.8%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-85	-15.4%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	-73	-25.7%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	+44	4.1%
	Totals:	+2	+6,738	+27.4%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 54,758; in 2000 it was 74,698. The total population changed 36.4%. The adherent totals for 1990 (24,934) represent 45.5% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (32,271) include 43.2% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 26 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 26 groups had 24,598 adherents in 1990 and 31,336 adherents in 2000, for a change of 27.4%

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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