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Champaign-Urbana, IL MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

26,738 25,421 328 19,503 3,159 104,520
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
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 29 11,019 63.7
Catholic Church Catholic 17 18,371 106.2
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 13 3,352 19.4
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 11 7,166 41.4
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 9 3,369 19.5
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 8 933 5.4
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 8 2,323 13.4
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 6 3,605 20.8
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 6 835 4.8
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 5 1,494 8.6
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant 4 673 3.9
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 4 1,369 7.9
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 3 1,074 6.2
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 3 1,384 8.0
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 3 1,123 6.5
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 3 711 4.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 3 1,037 6.0
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 2 401 2.3
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 2 n.a. n.a.
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 2 177 1.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 2 179 1.0
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 1 117 0.7
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 79 0.5
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 200 1.2
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 1 n.a. n.a.
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 1 71 0.4
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 1 95 0.6
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 1 81 0.5
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 1 31 0.2
Primitive Baptists Associations Evangelical Protestant 1 41 0.2
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 89 0.5
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 109 0.6
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 1,200 6.9
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 475 2.8
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 170 1.0
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 1 1,700 9.8
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 333 1.9
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 205 1.2
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 4,936 28.5
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 161 70,527  
The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 173,025. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (70,527) include 40.8% 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.