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El Paso, TX MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

51,161 17,296 1,016 349,866 11,776 248,507
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
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 13 2,062 4.3
Catholic Church Catholic 64 131,742 274.5
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 1 47 0.1
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 2 100 0.2
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 7 2,236 4.7
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 4 356 0.7
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 1 60 0.1
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 1 180 0.4
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 2 52 0.1
Church of God (Seventh Day) Evangelical Protestant 1 105 0.2
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 13 4,606 9.6
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 8 1,244 2.6
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 12 2,189 4.6
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 7 4,462 9.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 5 1,546 3.2
Evangelical Methodist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 20 0.0
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 2 442 0.9
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 3 149 0.3
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 2 1,501 3.1
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 4 1,346 2.8
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 1 80 0.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 11 3,647 7.6
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 2 217 0.5
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 3 793 1.7
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 37 30,006 62.5
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 128 0.3
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 2 267 0.6
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 21 15,002 31.3
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant n.a. 30 0.1
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 2 285 0.6
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 233 204,900  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 479,899. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (204,900) include 42.7% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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.