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