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Pierce County, Washington

Denominational Groups, 2000

75,400 43,376 930 61,910 27,044 492,160
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 Association, The Evangelical Protestant 2 115 0.2
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 15 5,524 11.4
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 19 6,148 12.7
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 4 1,462 3.0
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 1 36 0.1
Catholic Church Catholic 24 39,460 81.3
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 1 270 0.6
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 8 1,820 3.8
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 8 1,299 2.7
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 1 270 0.6
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 3 1,155 2.4
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 3 248 0.5
Church of God (Seventh Day) Evangelical Protestant 1 22 0.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 23 10,537 21.7
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 73 0.2
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 7 1,633 3.4
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 11 1,380 2.8
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 3 750 1.5
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 9 3,812 7.9
Evangelical Covenant Church, The Evangelical Protestant 3 642 1.3
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 4 246 0.5
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 28 15,956 32.9
Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 2 619 1.3
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 4 852 1.8
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 4 368 0.8
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 1 109 0.2
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 1 34 0.1
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 1 573 1.2
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 1 233 0.5
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 9 6,560 13.5
Missionary Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 60 0.1
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 1 566 1.2
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant 3 920 1.9
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 5 1,045 2.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 28 9,185 18.9
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 1 96 0.2
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 175 0.4
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 7 1,631 3.4
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 9 4,909 10.1
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 204 0.4
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 7 795 1.6
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 25 10,235 21.1
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant 1 40 0.1
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 2 423 0.9
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 294 132,490  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 485,643. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (132,490) include 27.3% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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.