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Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

133,417 30,226 594 78,383 5,160 137,310
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
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 110 107,531 297.7
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 44 6,594 18.3
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 44 26,604 73.7
Catholic Church Catholic 38 76,245 211.1
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 35 7,087 19.6
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 9 1,965 5.4
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 9 3,073 8.5
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 9 3,625 10.0
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 9 1,908 5.3
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 8 1,634 4.5
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 8 2,146 5.9
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 7 2,887 8.0
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 7 3,188 8.8
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 5 578 1.6
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 4 1,271 3.5
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 4 456 1.3
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 3 241 0.7
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 3 900 2.5
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 3 120 0.3
Primitive Baptists Associations Evangelical Protestant 3 132 0.4
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 3 327 0.9
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 2 1,550 4.3
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 1 13 0.0
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant 1 13 0.0
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 1 27 0.1
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 1 n.a. n.a.
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 104 0.3
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 30 0.1
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 1 122 0.3
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 26,755 74.1
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 375 277,126  
The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 361,226. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (277,126) include 76.7% of the total population in 1990.

Source

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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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.