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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 43 30,460 211.9
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 10 9,198 64.0
Catholic Church Catholic 6 8,740 60.8
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 4,213 29.3
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 24 2,846 19.8
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 4 2,478 17.2
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 14 1,598 11.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 3 1,288 9.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 2 1,022 7.1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 5 877 6.1
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 3 829 5.8
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 600 4.2
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 1 443 3.1
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 3 414 2.9
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 3 354 2.5
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 330 2.3
Evangelical Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 1 195 1.4
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 2 188 1.3
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 1 171 1.2
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 2 159 1.1
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body) Mainline Protestant 2 139 1.0
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 2 87 0.6
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 80 0.6
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 74 0.5
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 1 65 0.5
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 40 0.3
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant 1 40 0.3
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant 2 34 0.2
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant 1 30 0.2
Primitive Baptists Associations Evangelical Protestant 1 28 0.2
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 25 0.2
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 2 23 0.2
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 1 20 0.1
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 1 n.a. n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 2 n.a. n.a.
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 1 n.a. n.a.
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 150 67,088  
The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 143,776. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (67,088) include 46.7% of the total population in 1990.

Source

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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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.