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	% Change
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+104	650.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+159	90.3%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+316	52.9%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	0	+34	51.5%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+106	35.1%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+20	18.2%
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church	Orthodox	0	+265	16.5%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+12	7.9%
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	+15	7.8%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	+17	1.7%
Catholic Church	Catholic	+2	+744	1.0%
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+1	0.5%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	+1	-82	-1.9%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	-32	-2.8%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-266	-9.6%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	-1	-370	-10.6%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	-37	-13.2%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-1	-3,572	-13.4%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	+1	-383	-14.3%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	-25	-14.3%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+2	-322	-19.9%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	-3	-600	-20.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-76	-24.4%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-275	-30.1%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	-1,949	-30.3%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	-58	-36.3%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	-131	-37.5%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-2	-746	-43.7%
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA	Evangelical Protestant	0	-396	-86.7%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	0	n.a.	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
	Totals:	+3	-7,527	-5.7%

The population of these 2 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 264,497; in 2000 it was 252,320. The total population changed -4.6%. The adherent totals for 1990 (134,191) represent 50.7% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (130,654) include 51.8% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 29 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 29 groups had 132,795 adherents in 1990 and 125,268 adherents in 2000, for a change of -5.7%

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 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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