Dallas-Fort Worth, TX CMSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

1,296,169	474,770	7,257	808,167	144,292	2,491,146
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 Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	30	6,658	1.3
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	6	2,091	0.4
Amish; Other Groups	Evangelical Protestant	1	68	0.0
Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, The	Orthodox	3	954	0.2
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia	Orthodox	1	80	0.0
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Etchmiadzin	Orthodox	1	385	0.1
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	267	68,879	13.2
Bahá'í	Other Theology	29	3,345	0.6
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	102	35,966	6.9
Buddhism	Other Theology	23	n.a.	n.a.
Calvary Chapel Fellowship Churches	Evangelical Protestant	4	n.a.	n.a.
Catholic Church	Catholic	113	808,167	154.8
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	9	884	0.2
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	102	44,802	8.6
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	23	11,791	2.3
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	2	494	0.1
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	7	473	0.1
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	60	11,911	2.3
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	7	245	0.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	107	40,380	7.7
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	62	12,848	2.5
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	357	104,031	19.9
Community of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	9	720	0.1
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	14	3,391	0.7
Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	65	0.0
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	86	50,882	9.7
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	211	0.0
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	5	690	0.1
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	59	24,199	4.6
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	195	0.0
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	5	309	0.1
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	2	38	0.0
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	3	2,643	0.5
Hindu	Other Theology	7	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	18	26,275	5.0
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	60	76,348	14.6
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	18	2,417	0.5
International Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	1,946	0.4
International Council of Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	3	913	0.2
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	14	1,719	0.3
Jain	Other Theology	2	n.a.	n.a.
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	24	50,075	9.6
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	50	26,730	5.1
Malankara Archdiocese of the Syrian Orthodox Church in North America	Orthodox	2	600	0.1
Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, American Diocese of the	Orthodox	4	1,325	0.3
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	4	261	0.1
Muslim Estimate	Other Theology	28	48,366	9.3
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	133	0.0
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	6	328	0.1
National Primitive Baptist Convention, USA	Evangelical Protestant	27	1,621	0.3
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	4	613	0.1
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	1	63	0.0
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	4	1,017	0.2
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	138	0.0
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	26	1,763	0.3
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	103	49,707	9.5
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	20	7,822	1.5
Primitive Baptist Churches--Old Line	Evangelical Protestant	13	n.a.	n.a.
Reformed Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	4	2,040	0.4
Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	13	6,191	1.2
Serbian Orthodox Church in the USA	Orthodox	1	190	0.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	62	19,506	3.7
Sikh	Other Theology	4	n.a.	n.a.
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	970	855,680	163.9
Southwide Baptist Fellowship	Evangelical Protestant	7	n.a.	n.a.
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	9	2,126	0.4
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	8	2,128	0.4
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	325	294,185	56.3
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	5	3,652	0.7
Vineyard USA	Evangelical Protestant	5	4,435	0.9
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	960	0.2
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,587	0.3
Zoroastrian	Other Theology	2	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	3,375	2,730,655
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		3,364,972

The population of these 12 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 4,037,282; in 2000 it was 5,221,801. The total population changed 29.3%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (2,730,655) include 52.3% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (3,364,972) include 64.4% of the population.

Source

^*The “Unadjusted Totals” come from the 1990 and 2000 data collected by representatives of the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). While quite comprehensive, this data excludes most of the historically African-American denominations and some other major groups. As a result, these numbers will be an underestimate of the total adherence rate, particularly in areas with a large African-American population. The 2000 data included 149 religious groups and the final results are published in Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Copyright © 2002, All rights reserved. The 1990 data included 132 groups and the final results are published in Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990 Copyright © 1990, All rights reserved. Published by Glenmary Research Center, 1312 Fifth Ave., North, Nashville, TN 37208. www.glenmary.org/grc [More information on the data collection]

^**The “Adjusted Totals” include all adherents in the denominations counted by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and estimates adherent totals for the historically African-American denominations and other religious groups not listed in the ASARB totals. An article by Roger Finke and Christopher P. Scheitle (2005) reviews how these estimates were computed.

^†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.

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