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^†
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	52	30,119	50.9
Catholic Church	Catholic	49	393,500	665.1
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	23	5,079	8.6
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	22	12,136	20.5
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	14	5,978	10.1
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	11	2,162	3.7
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	11	3,839	6.5
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	8	3,540	6.0
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	8	703	1.2
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,347	2.3
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,092	1.9
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	6	1,635	2.8
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	6	3,450	5.8
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,718	2.9
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	5	1,367	2.3
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	5	540	0.9
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,600	2.7
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	4	462	0.8
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	3	470	0.8
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	3	266	0.5
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	3	164	0.3
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	3	88	0.2
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	2	n.a.	n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	2	72	0.1
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	2	75	0.1
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	255	0.4
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	183	0.3
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	2	4,900	8.3
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	76	0.1
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	92	0.2
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	100	0.2
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	111	0.2
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	80	0.1
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	53	0.1
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	20	0.0
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	9,697	16.4
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	278	486,969

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 591,610. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (486,969) include 82.3% 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.