Bloomington-Normal, IL MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

21,694	24,034		19,032	1,714	83,959
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 Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	-1	-58	-4.6%
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	0	+278	35.6%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+727	97.1%
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+2,139	12.7%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-53	-51.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-2	+106	2.9%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+1,625	41.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+69	31.1%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-479	-80.5%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+1	+195	30.3%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	-113	-24.2%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	-46	-8.2%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-92	-16.4%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+6	2.2%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+1	+467	11.9%
Evangelical Mennonite Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+174	395.5%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+16	28.6%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	0	-400	-22.2%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	0	-12	-5.5%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	+330	194.1%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+195	3.6%
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-270	-25.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	+1	-927	-19.1%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+182	206.8%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+115	57.2%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-35	-32.4%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+376	27.9%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	+1	+50	10.9%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-2	-1,294	-11.7%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+24	27.3%
	Totals:	+4	+3,295	+5.3%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 129,180; in 2000 it was 150,433. The total population changed 16.5%. The adherent totals for 1990 (63,601) represent 49.2% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (66,474) include 44.2% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 30 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 30 groups had 61,637 adherents in 1990 and 64,932 adherents in 2000, for a change of 5.3%

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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