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Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

38,275 67,561 1,019 70,855 3,782 177,570
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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Religious Bodies Theology Congregations Adherents % Change
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant +5 +1,028 63.3%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +3 -162 -10.9%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +2 +85 21.1%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +271 17.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +2 -897 -25.8%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant +1 +270 6.8%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +1 +362 19.7%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant +1 -160 -33.6%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 0 +35 2.1%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 0 -462 -9.4%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 0 -551 -31.8%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 -12 -1.6%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 0 n.a. n.a.
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 -923 -3.5%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 0 -11 -27.5%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 -67 -45.6%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 0 -750 -16.9%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 0 -50 -4.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 -178 -1.4%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 0 -50 -59.5%
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 +210 71.4%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 -29 -10.6%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 0 -1,103 -19.2%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +2,541 532.7%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 -30 -7.5%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant -1 +922 37.9%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant -1 +7 6.7%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant -1 +5 11.1%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox -1 n.a. n.a.
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant -1 -169 -77.2%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -1 -4,116 -19.7%
Catholic Church Catholic -2 -6,383 -8.3%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -2 -2,129 -20.1%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant -2 +91 19.2%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant -2 -176 -27.1%
  Totals: +3 -12,581 -6.7%

The population of these 3 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 350,861; in 2000 it was 359,062. The total population changed 2.3%. The adherent totals for 1990 (197,606) represent 56.3% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (181,492) include 50.5% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 33 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 33 groups had 188,629 adherents in 1990 and 176,048 adherents in 2000, for a change of -6.7%

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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