Flagstaff, AZ-UT MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

11,403	4,492		8,267	15,994	82,210
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
Catholic Church	Catholic	+1	+1,388	20.2%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+173	14.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-28	-48.3%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-2	+822	165.1%
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+42	91.3%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+68	165.9%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-68	-8.6%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	-33	-11.6%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	+5	n.a.	n.a.
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+112	164.7%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+313	474.2%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-144	-42.5%
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	-76	-24.7%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+98	146.3%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+106	87.6%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	0	-584	-19.3%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+282	587.5%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+14	5.7%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	0	+48	77.4%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-2	-20	-18.7%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-77	-15.2%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+125	12.5%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	0	+18	90.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	-103	-22.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	-27	-2.7%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	-268	-16.5%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+9	+308	2.1%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+1	+250	100.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+127	343.2%
	Totals:	+16	+2,866	+8.5%

The population of these 2 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 101,760; in 2000 it was 122,366. The total population changed 20.2%. The adherent totals for 1990 (34,357) represent 33.8% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (40,156) include 32.8% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 28 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 28 groups had 33,622 adherents in 1990 and 36,488 adherents in 2000, for a change of 8.5%

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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