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	% Change
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	0	+105	184.2%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+9	+1,829	50.8%
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+1,553	28.6%
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+11,319	149.1%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-3	+657	32.3%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+1,396	71.7%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+191	34.7%
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite	Evangelical Protestant	0	+96	82.8%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-33	-47.1%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+3	+1,580	103.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+4	-177	-7.8%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+174	2.6%
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-65	-41.9%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	+509	26.2%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+127	80.4%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+1	+490	23.8%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+10	40.0%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	0	+4	26.7%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	-3	-2,240	-81.8%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	0	+85	193.2%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+122	49.2%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	+30	25.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+257	17.3%
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	0	-28	-53.8%
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	0	+21	150.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	0	+64	2.5%
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+803	109.3%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	+53	1.5%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+97	91.5%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+213	121.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-45	-2.2%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+16	+15,169	31.3%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+92	88.5%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	+9	+2,418	15.3%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+37	31.1%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+148	125.4%
	Totals:	+45	+37,061	+32.3%

The population of these 2 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 210,908; in 2000 it was 311,121. The total population changed 47.5%. The adherent totals for 1990 (115,499) represent 54.8% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (161,559) include 51.9% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 36 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 36 groups had 114,723 adherents in 1990 and 151,784 adherents in 2000, for a change of 32.3%

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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