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Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

108,770 29,653   18,909 4,227 149,562
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 61 33,447 187.3
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 40 14,126 79.1
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 40 5,989 33.5
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 32 3,228 18.1
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 28 4,234 23.7
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 27 4,339 24.3
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 11 1,435 8.0
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 10 1,792 10.0
American Baptist Association, The Evangelical Protestant 9 1,444 8.1
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 8 2,113 11.8
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 8 1,528 8.6
Catholic Church Catholic 7 4,237 23.7
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 7 354 2.0
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 5 334 1.9
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 5 1,761 9.9
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 5 1,280 7.2
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 4 1,013 5.7
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 3 921 5.2
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 2 140 0.8
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 2 66 0.4
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 2 64 0.4
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 5 0.0
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant 1 50 0.3
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of Evangelical Protestant 1 73 0.4
Fire Baptized Holiness Church, (Wesleyan), The Evangelical Protestant 1 12 0.1
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 1 72 0.4
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 74 0.4
Christian Union Evangelical Protestant 1 10 0.1
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 323 84,141  

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 178,609. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (84,141) include 47.1% 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.