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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	% Change
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	+3,712	44.0%
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	0	-375	-47.2%
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+4,122	55.4%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+19	37.3%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-2	-51	-5.9%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+138	17.2%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-1	-0.7%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-57	-44.2%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	+376	25.7%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	+155	9.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-243	-5.1%
Churches of God, General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	+23	56.1%
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-4	-2.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-247	-21.6%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-179	-34.8%
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	0	-50	-12.5%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-32	-18.2%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	-125	-78.1%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-280	-17.9%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+4	-417	-8.8%
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+382	31.8%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-1	-292	-9.8%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+156	101.3%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+149	40.3%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+1,711	3.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-1	+263	2.0%
	Totals:	+5	+8,853	+8.0%

The population of these 3 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 175,911; in 2000 it was 207,290. The total population changed 17.8%. The adherent totals for 1990 (113,992) represent 64.8% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (125,203) include 60.4% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 26 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 26 groups had 110,928 adherents in 1990 and 119,781 adherents in 2000, for a change of 8.0%

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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