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
Catholic Church	Catholic	-3	+6,035	23.2%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+478	44.3%
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+116	63.4%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+177	23.4%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	-14	-2.1%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+124	18.6%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	0	-626	-12.4%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+29	31.9%
Churches of God, General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	-94	-10.3%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	-1	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+160	14.5%
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-82	-19.3%
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+10	4.3%
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-34	-34.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+131	98.5%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	0	0.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+270	341.8%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	0	+69	16.5%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	+44	7.8%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-1,393	-12.7%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-1	-689	-26.7%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-1	-303	-16.7%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-2	-2,577	-18.8%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	+27	6.8%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	+95	19.8%
	Totals:	-6	+1,953	+2.9%

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 adherent totals for 1990 (69,190) represent 53.0% of the 1990 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 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 24 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 24 groups had 68,508 adherents in 1990 and 70,461 adherents in 2000, for a change of 2.9%

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 1990 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and include statistics for 132 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Martin B. Bradley, Norman M. Green, Jr., Dale E. Jones, Mac Lynn, and Lou McNeil supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1990, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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