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^†
Catholic Church	Catholic	20	32,063	248.3
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	278	2.2
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,556	12.1
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	299	2.3
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	7	932	7.2
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	664	5.1
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	3	789	6.1
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	20	4,438	34.4
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	120	0.9
Churches of God, General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	7	816	6.3
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	200	1.6
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	3	1,260	9.8
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	5	342	2.7
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	242	1.9
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	66	0.5
Old Order Mennonite	Evangelical Protestant	2	296	2.3
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	245	1.9
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	264	2.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	52	0.4
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	3	349	2.7
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	136	1.1
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	2	486	3.8
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	3	611	4.7
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	24	9,553	74.0
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	127	1.0
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	9	1,895	14.7
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	12	1,510	11.7
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	44	11,156	86.4
Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, The	Orthodox	1	300	2.3
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	60	0.5
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	2	53	0.4
Bahá'í	Other Theology	0	27	0.2
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	423	3.3
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	2	575	4.5
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	196	72,183
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		79,978

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 130,542; in 2000 it was 129,144. The total population changed -1.1%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (72,183) include 55.9% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (79,978) include 61.9% 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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