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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	% Change
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+313	40.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	-1	+2,183	82.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-61	-67.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	+115	58.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-442	-61.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+431	41.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+53	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	+2	0.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+111	40.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+402	36.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-108	-8.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-54	-16.0%
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+1,200	n.a.
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+23	60.0%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	-132	-40.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-73	-42.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+306	n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-1	-836	-50.0%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+57	n.a.
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+152	77.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+116	34.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+5	-620	-3.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	+2	+1,688	20.0%
	Totals:	+15	4,826	+11.3%

The population of these 2 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 112,402; in 2000 it was 120,822. The total population changed 7.3%. The adherent totals for 1980 (43,169) represent 38.4% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (48,491) include 40.1% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 23 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 23 groups had 42,819 adherents in 1980 and 47,645 adherents in 2000, for a change of 11.3%

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 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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