Fort Walton Beach, FL MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

44,433	16,305	219	11,389	2,285	95,867
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	38	22,508	204.8
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	24	3,049	27.7
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	10	7,671	69.8
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,590	14.5
Catholic Church	Catholic	5	4,987	45.4
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	5	1,061	9.7
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	4	2,049	18.6
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	4	1,345	12.2
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	3	283	2.6
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	3	911	8.3
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	2	609	5.5
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	2	286	2.6
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	139	1.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	327	3.0
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	1	300	2.7
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	1	352	3.2
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	1	126	1.2
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	335	3.1
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	138	1.3
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	29	0.3
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	119	48,095

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 109,920. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (48,095) include 43.8% 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.