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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 +1 +664 59.0%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 0 -25 -8.0%
Catholic Church Catholic +1 +7,675 145.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +968 1308.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 0 -9 -6.0%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 0 -55 -36.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 0 -15 -20.0%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +2 +80 n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +6 +1,175 26.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant -1 -171 -23.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 +55 25.0%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 0 -147 -67.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 -51 -15.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +56 95.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant -1 +940 70.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 0 +95 27.0%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 +51 84.0%
Hutterian Brethren Evangelical Protestant +2 +200 n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +4 +529 n.a.
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant +2 +168 400.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 -223 -23.0%
Missionary Church, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +92 204.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant +1 -117 -12.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +1 +15 3.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant -2 -50 -10.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 0 -134 -39.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 0 -255 -19.0%
  Totals: +16 +11,511 +57.9%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 48,522; in 2000 it was 74,698. The total population changed 36.4%. The adherent totals for 1980 (19,990) represent 41.2% of the 1980 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 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 27 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 27 groups had 19,880 adherents in 1980 and 31,391 adherents in 2000, for a change of 57.9%

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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