Austin-San Marcos, TX MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

196,511	101,019	1,173	230,358	29,162	691,540
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	Adherence Rate^†
Catholic Church	Catholic	55	230,358	184.3
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	173	127,903	102.3
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	79	44,296	35.4
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	40	18,735	15.0
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	28	16,724	13.4
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	22	14,312	11.5
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	11	13,500	10.8
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	32	13,056	10.5
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	70	12,904	10.3
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	6	12,550	10.0
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	23	9,788	7.8
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	6	6,760	5.4
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	39	6,210	5.0
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	19	5,254	4.2
Muslim Estimate	Other Theology	5	3,914	3.1
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	11	2,019	1.6
National Primitive Baptist Convention, USA	Evangelical Protestant	14	1,768	1.4
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,674	1.3
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,509	1.2
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	8	1,334	1.1
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	3	1,281	1.0
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	11	1,183	1.0
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,128	0.9
Bahá'í	Other Theology	7	1,091	0.9
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	10	915	0.7
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	5	918	0.7
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	4	869	0.7
Vineyard USA	Evangelical Protestant	3	836	0.7
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	3	632	0.5
Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, The	Orthodox	2	642	0.5
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	6	490	0.4
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	6	358	0.3
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	321	0.3
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	324	0.3
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	291	0.2
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	2	264	0.2
International Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	260	0.2
Community of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	231	0.2
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	224	0.2
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	216	0.2
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	182	0.2
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	3	154	0.1
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Etchmiadzin	Orthodox	1	140	0.1
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	107	0.1
Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, American Diocese of the	Orthodox	1	100	0.1
General Association of Regular Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	89	0.1
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	2	75	0.1
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	66	0.1
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	2	66	0.1
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	56	0.0
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	45	0.0
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	52	0.0
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	31	0.0
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	18	0.0
Calvary Chapel Fellowship Churches	Evangelical Protestant	3	n.a.	n.a.
Buddhism	Other Theology	8	n.a.	n.a.
Coptic Orthodox Church	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Hindu	Other Theology	4	n.a.	n.a.
Primitive Baptist Churches--Old Line	Evangelical Protestant	6	n.a.	n.a.
Sikh	Other Theology	2	n.a.	n.a.
Southwide Baptist Fellowship	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	782	558,223
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		657,402

The population of these 5 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 846,227; in 2000 it was 1,249,763. The total population changed 47.7%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (558,223) include 44.7% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (657,402) include 52.6% of the population.

Source

^*The “Unadjusted Totals” come from the 1990 and 2000 data collected by representatives of the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). While quite comprehensive, this data excludes most of the historically African-American denominations and some other major groups. As a result, these numbers will be an underestimate of the total adherence rate, particularly in areas with a large African-American population. The 2000 data included 149 religious groups and the final results are published in Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Copyright © 2002, All rights reserved. The 1990 data included 132 groups and the final results are published in Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990 Copyright © 1990, All rights reserved. Published by Glenmary Research Center, 1312 Fifth Ave., North, Nashville, TN 37208. www.glenmary.org/grc [More information on the data collection]

^**The “Adjusted Totals” include all adherents in the denominations counted by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and estimates adherent totals for the historically African-American denominations and other religious groups not listed in the ASARB totals. An article by Roger Finke and Christopher P. Scheitle (2005) reviews how these estimates were computed.

^†The adherence rate provides the number of adherents of a particular group per 1,000 population. For example, in 2000 the Episcopal Church had an adherence rate of approximately 8 (8.1) in Autauga County, Alabama. This means that 8 out of every 1,000 people in Autauga county are Episcopalian.

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