Grand Rapids-Muskegon-Holland, MI MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

215,959	131,180	2,623	173,768	13,293	551,691
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^†
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	162	79,012	94.0
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	105	64,704	77.0
Catholic Church	Catholic	79	131,911	156.9
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	68	24,236	28.8
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	30	15,903	18.9
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	24	14,189	16.9
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	22	14,483	17.2
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	22	4,489	5.3
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	20	7,619	9.1
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	17	1,588	1.9
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	14	8,886	10.6
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	14	2,589	3.1
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	12	3,276	3.9
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	11	751	0.9
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	11	2,414	2.9
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	10	2,703	3.2
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	10	2,031	2.4
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,102	1.3
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	8	2,742	3.3
Protestant Reformed Churches in America	Evangelical Protestant	7	2,441	2.9
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	7	164	0.2
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,660	2.0
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,532	1.8
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	6	740	0.9
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	6	2,394	2.9
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	6	2,642	3.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	5	1,400	1.7
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	4	1,946	2.3
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	4	1,475	1.8
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	3	68	0.1
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	3	1,096	1.3
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	3	406	0.5
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	328	0.4
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	172	0.2
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	66	0.1
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	195	0.2
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	3,687	4.4
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	142	0.2
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	100	0.1
Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	233	0.3
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	171	0.2
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	39	0.1
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	260	0.3
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	55	0.1
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	668	0.8
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	n.a.	40	0.1
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	734	408,748

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 840,824. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (408,748) include 48.6% 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.