Glens Falls, NY MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

3,890	15,234		35,903	1,275	68,043
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^†
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	32	7,205	57.9
Catholic Church	Catholic	20	35,903	288.7
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	18	3,736	30.1
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	16	1,657	13.3
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	15	2,428	19.5
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	6	619	5.0
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,431	11.5
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	257	2.1
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	2	66	0.5
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	73	0.6
General Association of Regular Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	99	0.8
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	99	0.8
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	80	0.6
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	369	3.0
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	1	101	0.8
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	28	0.2
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	1	42	0.3
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	156	1.3
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	1	52	0.4
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	80	0.6
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	1	127	1.0
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	277	2.2
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	53	0.4
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	538	4.3
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	1	800	6.4
Bahá'í	Other Theology	0	26	0.2
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	135	56,302
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		62,669

The population of these 2 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 118,539; in 2000 it was 124,345. The total population changed 4.9%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (56,302) include 45.3% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (62,669) include 50.4% of the population.

Source

^*The “Unadjusted Totals” come from the 1990 and 2000 data collected by representatives of the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). While quite comprehensive, this data excludes most of the historically African-American denominations and some other major groups. As a result, these numbers will be an underestimate of the total adherence rate, particularly in areas with a large African-American population. The 2000 data included 149 religious groups and the final results are published in Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Copyright © 2002, All rights reserved. The 1990 data included 132 groups and the final results are published in Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990 Copyright © 1990, All rights reserved. Published by Glenmary Research Center, 1312 Fifth Ave., North, Nashville, TN 37208. www.glenmary.org/grc [More information on the data collection]

^**The “Adjusted Totals” include all adherents in the denominations counted by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and estimates adherent totals for the historically African-American denominations and other religious groups not listed in the ASARB totals. An article by Roger Finke and Christopher P. Scheitle (2005) reviews how these estimates were computed.

^†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.

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