Albany, GA MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

29,113	12,949		4,829	1,600	72,331
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^†
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	28	21,578	178.6
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	11	10,320	85.4
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,530	12.7
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,477	12.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	5	831	6.9
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	4	1,195	9.9
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	3	386	3.2
Muslim Estimate	Other Theology	3	601	5.0
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	3	306	2.5
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	3	1,104	9.1
Southwide Baptist Fellowship	Evangelical Protestant	3	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	1,200	9.9
Primitive Baptist Churches--Old Line	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	2	690	5.7
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	460	3.8
Catholic Church	Catholic	1	4,829	40.0
Bahá'í	Other Theology	1	109	0.9
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	1	313	2.6
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	287	2.4
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	1	53	0.4
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	30	0.3
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	1	200	1.7
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	349	2.9
Reformed Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	57	0.5
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	99	0.8
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	61	0.5
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	1	136	1.1
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	290	2.4
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	101	48,491
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		85,074

The population of these 2 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 112,561; in 2000 it was 120,822. The total population changed 7.3%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (48,491) include 40.1% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (85,074) include 70.4% of the population.

Source

^*The “Unadjusted Totals” come from the 1990 and 2000 data collected by representatives of the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). While quite comprehensive, this data excludes most of the historically African-American denominations and some other major groups. As a result, these numbers will be an underestimate of the total adherence rate, particularly in areas with a large African-American population. The 2000 data included 149 religious groups and the final results are published in Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Copyright © 2002, All rights reserved. The 1990 data included 132 groups and the final results are published in Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990 Copyright © 1990, All rights reserved. Published by Glenmary Research Center, 1312 Fifth Ave., North, Nashville, TN 37208. www.glenmary.org/grc [More information on the data collection]

^**The “Adjusted Totals” include all adherents in the denominations counted by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and estimates adherent totals for the historically African-American denominations and other religious groups not listed in the ASARB totals. An article by Roger Finke and Christopher P. Scheitle (2005) reviews how these estimates were computed.

^†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.

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