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
Catholic Church	Catholic	+2	+19,396	17.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+20	+1,933	97.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+6	+1,523	134.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+461	153.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+359	68.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+13	+284	2.0%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+1	+191	74.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+158	10.0%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+98	n.a.
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+85	86.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+74	n.a.
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+65	5.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+50	67.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+22	17.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-10	-11.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	-12	-46.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-79	-22.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	+1	-102	-2.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	+1	-109	-18.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+2	-170	-22.0%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-196	-33.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	+1	-431	-18.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-742	-32.0%
	Totals:	+55	22,848	+15.1%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 209,727; in 2000 it was 335,227. The total population changed 28.9%. The adherent totals for 1980 (151,056) represent 72.0% of the 1980 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 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 23 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 23 groups had 151,014 adherents in 1980 and 173,862 adherents in 2000, for a change of 15.1%

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 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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