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^†
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	124	0.1
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	31	14,497	15.3
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	21	8,094	8.5
Bahá'í	Other Theology	4	245	0.3
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	3	396	0.4
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	8	468	0.5
Buddhism	Other Theology	4	n.a.	n.a.
Calvary Chapel Fellowship Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Catholic Church	Catholic	53	127,921	134.6
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	8	2,213	2.3
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	7	2,276	2.4
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	25	10,346	10.9
Christian Union	Evangelical Protestant	1	77	0.1
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	33	5,719	6.0
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	21	4,412	4.6
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	5	431	0.5
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	2	78	0.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	15	5,081	5.4
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	25	6,951	7.3
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	39	9,485	10.0
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	42	5,529	5.8
Community of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	190	0.2
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	1,453	1.5
Enterprise Baptists Association	Evangelical Protestant	4	255	0.3
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	11	4,311	4.5
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	11	0.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	57	24,505	25.8
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	40	0.0
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	9	667	0.7
General Association of Regular Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	17	5,369	5.7
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	192	0.2
Hindu	Other Theology	3	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	420	0.4
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	10	7,870	8.3
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	1	211	0.2
International Council of Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	3	940	1.0
International Pentecostal Church of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	3	530	0.6
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	104	0.1
Jain	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	6	5,200	5.5
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	8	2,548	2.7
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	3	440	0.5
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	10	687	0.7
Muslim Estimate	Other Theology	5	1,628	1.7
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	16	1,210	1.3
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	222	0.2
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	1	288	0.3
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	177	0.2
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	4	313	0.3
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	32	10,036	10.6
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	271	0.3
Primitive Baptist Churches--Old Line	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Primitive Baptists, Eastern District Association of	Evangelical Protestant	3	438	0.5
Reformed Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,661	1.8
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	12	3,173	3.3
Sikh	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	72	37,675	39.6
Southwide Baptist Fellowship	Evangelical Protestant	3	n.a.	n.a.
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	2	415	0.4
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	45	15,270	16.1
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	115	42,435	44.6
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	72	0.1
Vineyard USA	Evangelical Protestant	3	446	0.5
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,186	1.3
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	2	264	0.3
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	844	377,466
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		463,444

The population of these 4 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 951,270; in 2000 it was 950,558. The total population changed -0.1%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (377,466) include 39.7% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (463,444) include 48.8% 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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