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Metro Area Membership Report
Dallas-Fort Worth, TX CMSA
Denominational Groups, 2000
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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
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| Religious Bodies |
Theology |
Congregations |
Adherents |
% Change |
| Salvation Army, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
+2 |
+5,095 |
464.9% |
| Presbyterian Church in America |
Evangelical Protestant |
+5 |
+5,855 |
297.7% |
| International Pentecostal Holiness Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
+8 |
+1,162 |
208.6% |
| International Church of the Foursquare Gospel |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
+1,350 |
126.5% |
| Catholic Church |
Catholic |
+16 |
+445,082 |
122.6% |
| Evangelical Free Church of America, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+367 |
113.6% |
| Christian Churches and Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
+5,735 |
94.7% |
| Wesleyan Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
+440 |
84.6% |
| Christian and Missionary Alliance, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
-1 |
+374 |
73.3% |
| Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+26 |
66.7% |
| Christian Reformed Church in North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+176 |
55.3% |
| North American Baptist Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+189 |
44.6% |
| Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+449 |
39.5% |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The |
Other Theology |
+30 |
+11,388 |
39.3% |
| Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) |
Evangelical Protestant |
+4 |
+3,070 |
34.7% |
| Jewish Estimate |
Other Theology |
+9 |
+11,075 |
28.4% |
| Reformed Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
+1 |
+448 |
28.1% |
| Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
-20 |
+13,515 |
21.5% |
| Seventh-day Adventist Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
+5 |
+2,887 |
17.4% |
| Assemblies of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
+24 |
+9,801 |
16.6% |
| National Association of Congregational Christian Churches |
Mainline Protestant |
0 |
+18 |
15.7% |
| United Methodist Church, The |
Mainline Protestant |
-3 |
+31,951 |
12.2% |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
+8 |
+2,605 |
12.1% |
| Southern Baptist Convention |
Evangelical Protestant |
+270 |
+87,193 |
11.3% |
| Church of the Nazarene |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
+1,165 |
10.0% |
| Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+1,790 |
7.2% |
| Episcopal Church |
Mainline Protestant |
-1 |
+3,276 |
6.9% |
| Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) |
Mainline Protestant |
0 |
+2,840 |
6.8% |
| Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations |
Other Theology |
0 |
+110 |
5.5% |
| Mennonite Church USA |
Evangelical Protestant |
-3 |
+4 |
1.6% |
| Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
-11 |
-1,364 |
-1.3% |
| Baptist Missionary Association of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
-877 |
-2.4% |
| United Church of Christ |
Mainline Protestant |
0 |
-183 |
-7.9% |
| Church of God of Prophecy |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-31 |
-11.2% |
| Cumberland Presbyterian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
-1 |
-449 |
-11.7% |
| Pentecostal Church of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
-4 |
-254 |
-12.6% |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) |
Mainline Protestant |
-11 |
-7,602 |
-13.3% |
| Free Methodist Church of North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
-3 |
-140 |
-31.2% |
| Independent, Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
-20 |
-13,060 |
-33.2% |
| Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) |
Evangelical Protestant |
-1 |
-402 |
-45.9% |
| National Association of Free Will Baptists |
Evangelical Protestant |
-1 |
-405 |
-55.3% |
| American Baptist Churches in the USA |
Mainline Protestant |
-7 |
-5,808 |
-73.5% |
| Friends (Quakers) |
Mainline Protestant |
0 |
-123 |
-76.4% |
| Evangelical Presbyterian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+195 |
n.a. |
| Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America |
Orthodox |
0 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America |
Orthodox |
0 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses |
Orthodox |
+1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
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Totals:
+301
| +618,933 |
+30.5% |
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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 adherent totals for 1990 (2,277,675) represent 56.4% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (2,730,655) include 52.3% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 44 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 44 groups had 2,032,392 adherents in 1990 and 2,651,325 adherents in 2000, for a change of 30.5%
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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