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 Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	18	5,698	9.7
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses	Orthodox	0	10	0.0
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	29	13,485	23.0
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	6	2,064	3.5
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	78	0.1
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	11,565	19.7
Catholic Church	Catholic	24	53,259	90.9
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	692	1.2
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	24	0.0
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	8	1,612	2.8
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	10	2,263	3.9
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	2	434	0.7
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	5	n.a.	n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	4	257	0.4
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	2	276	0.5
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	1	68	0.1
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	2	68	0.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	38	16,534	28.2
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	0	0.0
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	6	2,144	3.7
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	11	1,677	2.9
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	7	n.a.	n.a.
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	10	3,648	6.2
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	5	555	1.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	30	15,804	27.0
Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	2	638	1.1
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	3	209	0.4
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	3	212	0.4
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	8	6,000	10.2
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	730	1.3
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	8	870	1.5
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	35	0.1
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	1	1,100	1.9
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	191	0.3
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	11	6,611	11.3
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	34	0.1
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	361	0.6
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	4	936	1.6
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	4	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	77	0.1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	28	8,826	15.1
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	310	0.5
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	312	0.5
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	8	2,295	3.9
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	15	7,657	13.1
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	212	0.4
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	7	850	1.5
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	27	8,750	14.9
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	2	444	0.8
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	371	179,875

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 586,203. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (179,875) include 30.7% 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.