Auburn-Opelika, AL MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

26,575	10,178	27	2,115	912	75,285
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	+1	+725	105.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	-551	-21.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+44	n.a.
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	+51	28.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-70	-67.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+87	77.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	+347	257.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	-17	-27.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+23	2.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	-1	+165	30.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+42	16.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+143	n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	-305	-30.0%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+176	48.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+57	211.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+6,903	44.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+75	179.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-2	+1,478	21.0%
	Totals:	5	+9,373	+31.2%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 76,283; in 2000 it was 115,092. The total population changed 32.1%. The adherent totals for 1980 (46,059) represent 60.4% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (39,807) include 34.6% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 18 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 18 groups had 30,034 adherents in 1980 and 39,407 adherents in 2000, for a change of 31.2%

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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