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Elmira, NY MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

5,135 13,110 216 22,686 1,461 48,462
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 12 27,704 291.0
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 2 827 8.7
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 4 1,204 12.7
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 1,079 11.3
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 2 449 4.7
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 3 533 5.6
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 95 1.0
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 2 186 2.0
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 1 62 0.7
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 130 1.4
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 353 3.7
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 1 478 5.0
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 5 997 10.5
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 6 1,822 19.1
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 1 122 1.3
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 6 1,655 17.4
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 3 1,474 15.5
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 58 0.6
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 6 2,436 25.6
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 2 1,201 12.6
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 22 7,732 81.2
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 1 n.a. n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 1 526 5.5
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 2 1,100 11.6
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 59 0.6
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 89 52,282  
The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 95,195. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (52,282) include 54.9% 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.