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Denominational Groups, 2000

31,968	16,675		4,926	1,890	97,985
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	0	+155	63.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	+1	+1,996	68.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+55	344.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-2	+83	5.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-60	-20.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+347	60.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+2	+454	107.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+263	56.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	+308	22.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+186	74.0%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	+1	+74	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	+1	0	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+750	n.a.
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+538	212.0%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	+190	90.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+261	135.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-1	+624	28.0%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+730	912.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+159	88.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+145	66.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+3,972	18.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+115	97.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-1	+1,038	12.0%
	Totals:	+13	+12,383	+29.2%

The population of these 3 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 104,672; in 2000 it was 153,444. The total population changed 21.5%. The adherent totals for 1980 (42,773) represent 40.9% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (55,459) include 36.1% 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 42,468 adherents in 1980 and 54,851 adherents in 2000, for a change of 29.2%

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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