Corvallis, OR MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

6,142	5,114		5,257	1,171	60,469
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
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+1	+350	233.3%
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	+42	38.2%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+84	36.2%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+10	33.3%
Catholic Church	Catholic	+1	+623	13.4%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+34	9.5%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	+30	5.5%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	+1	+64	5.4%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+45	4.4%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+3	3.5%
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+3	2.4%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	+7	1.7%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-99	-7.8%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-31	-8.8%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+2	-123	-15.1%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	-232	-15.7%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-90	-24.5%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	-133	-26.3%
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-64	-31.1%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-394	-38.1%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	0	-20	-43.5%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	-261	-44.3%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-483	-45.8%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	n.a.	n.a.
	Totals:	+6	-635	-3.8%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 70,811; in 2000 it was 78,153. The total population changed 10.4%. The adherent totals for 1990 (19,407) represent 27.4% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (17,684) include 22.6% 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 16,593 adherents in 1990 and 15,958 adherents in 2000, for a change of -3.8%

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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