Binghamton, NY MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

11,160	38,196	4,146	72,765	4,387	121,666
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	37	72,021	272.3
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	67	26,631	100.7
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	21	6,425	24.3
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	12	4,261	16.1
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	8	3,481	13.2
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	6	3,000	11.3
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	4	2,761	10.4
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	9	2,674	10.1
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	10	1,706	6.5
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	11	1,621	6.1
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church	Orthodox	2	1,603	6.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	4	1,136	4.3
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	4	999	3.8
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	3	913	3.5
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	871	3.3
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	3	597	2.3
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	512	1.9
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	457	1.7
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	349	1.3
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	311	1.2
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	302	1.1
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	280	1.1
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	220	0.8
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	192	0.7
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	3	176	0.7
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	175	0.7
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	1	160	0.6
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	152	0.6
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	110	0.4
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	1	66	0.3
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	16	0.1
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	13	0.1
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	2	n.a.	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	2	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	231	134,191

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 264,497. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (134,191) include 50.7% 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.