King County, Washington

Denominational Groups, 2000

152,955	123,154	4,736	280,568	85,809	1,089,812
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^†
Catholic Church	Catholic	60	211,528	140.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	70	38,704	25.7
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	91	38,195	25.3
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	58	25,101	16.7
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	13	21,975	14.6
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	48	21,564	14.3
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	19,906	13.2
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	60	18,586	12.3
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	37	17,552	11.6
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	16	14,485	9.6
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	42	13,198	8.8
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	36	11,334	7.5
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	31	11,022	7.3
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	14	9,443	6.3
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	33	8,506	5.6
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	20	7,546	5.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	23	7,164	4.8
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	24	5,267	3.5
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	28	4,719	3.1
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	6	4,550	3.0
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	17	3,859	2.6
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	13	3,690	2.5
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	15	3,635	2.4
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	15	2,585	1.7
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	7	2,280	1.5
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,158	0.8
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,100	0.7
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,070	0.7
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	3	989	0.7
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	5	853	0.6
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	5	840	0.6
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	4	656	0.4
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	2	658	0.4
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	612	0.4
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	599	0.4
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	7	527	0.4
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	517	0.3
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America	Evangelical Protestant	4	504	0.3
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	6	457	0.3
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	415	0.3
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	2	330	0.2
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	246	0.2
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	3	230	0.2
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	210	0.1
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	216	0.1
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	188	0.1
Apostolic Lutheran Church of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	155	0.1
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses	Orthodox	1	135	0.1
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	121	0.1
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	3	98	0.1
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church	Mainline Protestant	1	87	0.1
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	73	0.1
American Association of Lutheran Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	68	0.1
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	2	75	0.1
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	64	0.0
Reformed Episcopal Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	31	0.0
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	32	0.0
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	18	0.0
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	0	0.0
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	26	n.a.	n.a.
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	3	n.a.	n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	3	n.a.	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	2	n.a.	n.a.
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	9	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	2	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	920	539,726

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 1,507,319. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (539,726) include 35.8% 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.