Dover, DE MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

8,684	16,728		12,964	2,305	86,016
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	% Change
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+26	52.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	+1	+579	76.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+1,486	1486.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+6,940	115.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+62	n.a.
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+135	61.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+35	47.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+120	293.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+116	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	+170	37.0%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	0	-58	-60.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	+91	11.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-65	-39.0%
Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+91	n.a.
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-66	-4.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-126	-19.0%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	0	+41	45.0%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	+1,489	1341.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+217	52.0%
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	+2	-350	-36.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	+1,244	175.0%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+422	1563.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-784	-85.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+119	22.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-490	-33.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	-132	-22.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-3	+692	7.0%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+1,193	n.a.
	Totals:	+13	+13,197	+48.9%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 98,219; in 2000 it was 126,697. The total population changed 14.1%. The adherent totals for 1980 (27,053) represent 27.5% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (40,681) include 32.1% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 28 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 28 groups had 26,998 adherents in 1980 and 40,195 adherents in 2000, for a change of 48.9%

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 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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