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	% Change
Churches of God, General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+7	+816	n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+1,260	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	+2	+53	n.a.
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+135	63.0%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-992	-18.0%
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+66	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	+1	+60	n.a.
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+249	36.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	+1	-588	-28.0%
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+29	14.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+62	10.0%
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-229	-43.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+249	46.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	+440	39.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	+87	26.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+27	29.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	0	-23	-4.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-471	-44.0%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	+52	10.0%
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+206	528.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-300	-53.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-7	-12.0%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-161	-45.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-2	-1,330	-41.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	-2	-2,971	-24.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	-3	-1,257	-4.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-4	-4,869	-30.0%
	Totals:	7	+-9,407	-11.7%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 136,621; in 2000 it was 129,144. The total population changed -1.1%. The adherent totals for 1980 (80,572) represent 59.0% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (72,183) include 55.9% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 27 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 27 groups had 80,084 adherents in 1980 and 70,677 adherents in 2000, for a change of -11.7%

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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