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	% Change
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	-1	+258	16.7%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+3	-87	-8.4%
Catholic Church	Catholic	+3	-4,738	-7.6%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+1,836	167.7%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+2	+484	89.1%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	-33	-11.2%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+6	3.6%
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	0	-16	-53.3%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	-1	+262	9.1%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+105	22.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	0	-22	-48.9%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	0	-54	-50.5%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	0	-2	-18.2%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	-1	0	0.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-46	-10.1%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	-7	-7.4%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	0	-57	-48.7%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+191	298.4%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-37	-35.2%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	0	-34	-37.8%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	+1	-5	-0.7%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-1	-641	-12.2%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-1	-918	-12.6%
	Totals:	+5	-3,555	-4.1%

The population of these 3 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 177,059; in 2000 it was 198,889. The total population changed 12.3%. The adherent totals for 1990 (87,718) represent 49.5% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (86,685) 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 23 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 23 groups had 87,522 adherents in 1990 and 83,967 adherents in 2000, for a change of -4.1%

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 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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