Jefferson County, Washington

Denominational Groups, 2000

1,279	1,599	75	1,930	868	20,202
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
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	0	-82	-51.9%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-110	-28.8%
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+740	62.2%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+1	+149	31.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	+51	31.1%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+56	87.5%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	+37	14.7%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-80	-47.1%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+156	47.0%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	0	-63	-70.8%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	+115	31.1%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+59	38.3%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+126	58.1%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+114	139.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	-315	-57.3%
	Totals:	+4	+953	+20.5%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 20,146; in 2000 it was 25,953. The total population changed 28.8%. The adherent totals for 1990 (4,655) represent 23.1% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (5,751) include 22.2% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 15 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 15 groups had 4,655 adherents in 1990 and 5,608 adherents in 2000, for a change of 20.5%

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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