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Fort Smith, AR-OK MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

92,855 18,535 45 11,568 2,200 82,087
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 8 6,039 37.1
American Baptist Association, The Evangelical Protestant 22 3,918 24.1
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 42 5,898 36.2
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 4 556 3.4
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 1 87 0.5
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 4 690 4.2
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 3 1,524 9.4
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 1 56 0.3
Church of God (Seventh Day) Evangelical Protestant 2 89 0.6
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 9 1,475 9.1
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 36 4,037 24.8
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 1 200 1.2
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 1 90 0.6
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 1 45 0.3
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 3 1,394 8.6
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 1 13 0.1
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 309 1.9
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 2 286 1.8
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 79 46,904 288.1
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 4 1,095 6.7
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 4 1,497 9.2
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 1 402 2.5
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 19 2,834 17.4
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 39 15,466 95.0
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 4 935 5.7
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 1 71 0.4
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 293 95,910  

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 162,813. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (95,910) include 58.9% 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.