Dayton-Springfield, OH MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

121,487	115,009	480	127,921	12,569	573,092
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^†
Catholic Church	Catholic	55	131,630	138.4
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	121	51,800	54.5
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	42,736	44.9
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	73	40,892	43.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	60	27,497	28.9
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	50	18,570	19.5
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	33	13,888	14.6
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	39	10,793	11.4
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	32	10,488	11.0
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	18	8,091	8.5
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	23	7,718	8.1
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	11	7,325	7.7
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	24	6,932	7.3
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	32	5,819	6.1
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	41	5,288	5.6
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	12	5,159	5.4
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	9	4,650	4.9
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	11	4,200	4.4
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	22	4,114	4.3
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	7	3,281	3.5
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	10	3,123	3.3
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	8	2,407	2.5
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	6	2,131	2.2
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	17	1,969	2.1
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	1,350	1.4
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	12	1,135	1.2
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	950	1.0
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	11	867	0.9
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	10	866	0.9
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	3	717	0.8
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	5	587	0.6
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	7	571	0.6
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	6	510	0.5
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	5	507	0.5
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	3	487	0.5
Primitive Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	3	428	0.5
Churches of God, General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	415	0.4
Church of the United Brethren in Christ	Evangelical Protestant	5	412	0.4
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	5	394	0.4
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	349	0.4
International Pentecostal Church of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	3	337	0.4
Enterprise Baptists Association	Evangelical Protestant	4	257	0.3
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	2	198	0.2
Church of God, Mountain Assembly, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	4	190	0.2
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	150	0.2
United Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	3	145	0.2
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	3	135	0.1
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	106	0.1
Old Regular Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	2	98	0.1
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	85	0.1
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	2	84	0.1
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	2	76	0.1
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	50	0.1
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	31	0.0
Midwest Congregational Christian Fellowship	Evangelical Protestant	1	30	0.0
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	6	n.a.	n.a.
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	12	n.a.	n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	2	n.a.	n.a.
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	851	433,018

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 951,270. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (433,018) include 45.5% 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.