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	% Change
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	0	+270	14.8%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+436	36.2%
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	-5,018	-18.1%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+172	38.3%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	-20	-16.4%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	-71	-13.5%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	-224	-42.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+8	8.4%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-191	-11.5%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-53	-28.5%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-394	-26.7%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+8	12.9%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	-450	-40.9%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	-517	-21.2%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+149	114.6%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+25	7.1%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-301	-63.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+5	8.5%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	-455	-37.9%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-1	-2,025	-26.2%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-289	-29.0%
	Totals:	+1	-8,935	-17.8%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 95,195; in 2000 it was 91,070. The total population changed -4.3%. The adherent totals for 1990 (52,282) represent 54.9% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (42,608) include 46.8% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 21 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 21 groups had 50,318 adherents in 1990 and 41,383 adherents in 2000, for a change of -17.8%

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 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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