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Altoona, PA MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

13,344 25,338 413 32,063 1,025 56,961
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
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 1 266 2.0
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 2 509 3.7
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 5 1,116 8.2
Brethren In Christ Church Evangelical Protestant 4 528 3.9
Catholic Church Catholic 23 33,320 243.9
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 6 683 5.0
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 602 4.4
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 3 540 4.0
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 1 336 2.5
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 19 5,430 39.7
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 93 0.7
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 3 361 2.6
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 3 1,082 7.9
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 26 12,524 91.7
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 1 195 1.4
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 2 523 3.8
Missionary Church, The Evangelical Protestant 2 213 1.6
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 39 0.3
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 11 3,225 23.6
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 2 564 4.1
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 59 0.4
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 1 214 1.6
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 11 2,098 15.4
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 48 16,025 117.3
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 27 0.2
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 179 80,572  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 136,621. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (80,572) include 59.0% 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.