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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 % Change
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +2,419 472.0%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +1 +2,403 402.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +2 +643 167.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology +1 +388 129.0%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +96 60.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 +202 53.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +4 +290 44.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +107 36.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant +1 +466 17.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 0 +8 10.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 0 +21 9.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -3 -495 -10.0%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 -7 -12.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -2 -1,245 -16.0%
Catholic Church Catholic -1 -11,768 -17.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant -1 -15 -18.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant +1 -459 -20.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -3 -108 -39.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +1 -54 -49.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 0 -100 -81.0%
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body) Mainline Protestant +1 +14 n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +1 +9 n.a.
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +1 +60 n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +1 +201 n.a.
  Totals: +7 -6,924 -7.6%

The population of these 3 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 154,935; in 2000 it was 198,889. The total population changed 12.3%. The adherent totals for 1980 (91,092) represent 58.8% of the 1980 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 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 24 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 24 groups had 91,092 adherents in 1980 and 84,168 adherents in 2000, for a change of -7.6%

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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