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Burlington, VT NECMA

Denominational Groups, 2000

5,795 16,681 1,921 57,380 4,908 112,204
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 Adherence Rate
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 12 1,547 8.7
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 4 1,033 5.8
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 196 1.1
Catholic Church Catholic 37 62,118 350.8
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 3 1,095 6.2
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 1 n.a. n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 1 543 3.1
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 2 295 1.7
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 2 166 0.9
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body) Mainline Protestant 1 30 0.2
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 14 2,881 16.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 2 478 2.7
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 1 45 0.3
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 107 0.6
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 1 11 0.1
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 4 3,000 16.9
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 454 2.6
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 1 95 0.5
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 1 117 0.7
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 64 0.4
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 2 105 0.6
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 2 90 0.5
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 694 3.9
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 20 5,251 29.7
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 33 7,303 41.3
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 149 87,718  
The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 177,059. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (87,718) include 49.5% of the total population in 1990.

Source

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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The adherence rate provides the number of adherents of a particular group per 1,000 population. For example, in 2000 the Episcopal Church had an adherence rate of approximately 8 (8.1) in Autauga County, Alabama. This means that 8 out of every 1,000 people in Autauga county are Episcopalian.