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Denominational Groups, 2000

47,056 24,380 212 51,097 65,558 244,042
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
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +1 +4,714 599.7%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology -1 +580 263.6%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 0 +997 183.3%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant +3 +265 155.9%
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -1 +1,450 138.1%
Catholic Church Catholic -2 +26,663 109.1%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 0 +240 65.8%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant -1 +199 61.4%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +187 56.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +58 +20,191 46.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +6 +1,361 30.5%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 +832 29.1%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +1 +42 25.6%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant +7 +311 25.2%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant -1 +1,330 18.6%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +5 +563 16.1%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 +329 13.7%
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 0 +58 9.5%
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant 0 +20 8.8%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant -1 +54 2.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +1 -36 -3.4%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -1 -339 -4.5%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 0 -159 -6.5%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 0 -248 -6.9%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +1 -482 -15.4%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 0 -171 -17.2%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 -48 -17.5%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 0 -683 -21.7%
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant 0 -21 -23.1%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -8 -2,127 -37.3%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -50 -40.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant -1 -284 -62.1%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant -2 n.a. n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
  Totals: +64 +55,738 +44.2%

The population of these 2 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 295,851; in 2000 it was 432,345. The total population changed 46.1%. The adherent totals for 1990 (127,474) represent 43.1% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (188,303) include 43.6% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 32 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 32 groups had 126,108 adherents in 1990 and 181,846 adherents in 2000, for a change of 44.2%

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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