Athens, GA MSA

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
Catholic Church	Catholic	+1	+3,805	339.4%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+229	206.3%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	0	+49	196.0%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+492	154.7%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+2	+495	128.6%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+411	107.9%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	+171	74.7%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+327	54.7%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+153	50.8%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+1	+100	33.3%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+89	32.1%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-1	+376	28.4%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+105	16.6%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	-1	+232	15.9%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-1	+453	4.8%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-9	-2.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	-161	-5.3%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+2	-1,659	-6.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	-30	-11.4%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-43	-15.6%
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	0	-1,250	-62.5%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
	Totals:	+7	+4,335	+8.6%

The population of these 3 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 126,262; in 2000 it was 153,444. The total population changed 21.5%. The adherent totals for 1990 (58,559) represent 46.4% of the 1990 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 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 21 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 21 groups had 50,445 adherents in 1990 and 54,780 adherents in 2000, for a change of 8.6%

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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