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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 % Change
American Baptist Association, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +135 287.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant +2 +1,161 968.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 0 +2,135 52.0%
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 0 -221 -83.0%
Catholic Church Catholic +17 +150,049 187.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -39 -37.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant +2 +1,390 36.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +3 +311 38.0%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant +2 +264 n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant +2 -2 -1.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +2 +223 165.0%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +2 +66 n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +18 +7,481 324.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +6 +350 42.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +5 +2,989 30.0%
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant +1 +61 4.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant +9 +6,936 71.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +5 +1,150 220.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant +4 +3,712 25.0%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 -86 -83.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +1 +291 n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +6 +12,550 n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +6 +6,760 n.a.
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant +1 +249 103.0%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +9 +12,570 1352.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant +3 +5,687 66.0%
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant +1 +169 360.0%
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant +10 +915 n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant +5 +4,571 54.0%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +5 +918 n.a.
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -50 -18.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +5 +1,327 192.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +64 +47,165 58.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology +3 +496 133.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 0 -139 -9.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant +8 +15,613 54.0%
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant 0 +171 114.0%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +324 n.a.
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant +2 +453 253.0%
  Totals: +212 +288,105 +110.5%

The population of these 5 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 585,051; in 2000 it was 1,249,763. The total population changed 47.7%. The adherent totals for 1980 (261,321) represent 44.7% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (558,223) include 44.7% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 39 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 39 groups had 260,726 adherents in 1980 and 548,831 adherents in 2000, for a change of 110.5%

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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