Brownsville-Harlingen-San Benito, TX MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

30,781	9,080		134,004	3,260	158,102
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
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+7	+844	5.1%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+3	+763	40.1%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+611	18.4%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+522	144.2%
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+179	149.2%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	+131	8.8%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	+125	38.5%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+117	41.2%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	+82	20.1%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+67	81.7%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	+54	1.1%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+1	+51	22.3%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+16	9.5%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+5	55.6%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	0	-2	-2.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	0	-11	-12.9%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-16	-16.7%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	-18	-1.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-33	-20.9%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-46	-3.5%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-183	-19.3%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	+1	-205	-9.5%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-211	-26.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	+4	-76,693	-36.4%
	Totals:	+25	-73,851	-29.8%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 260,120; in 2000 it was 335,227. The total population changed 28.9%. The adherent totals for 1990 (248,470) represent 95.5% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (177,125) include 52.8% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 24 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 24 groups had 248,012 adherents in 1990 and 174,161 adherents in 2000, for a change of -29.8%

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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