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	% Change
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+23	+16,022	n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+11	+13,740	n.a.
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	+8	-2,754	-11.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+5,924	132.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+1,254	48.0%
Protestant Reformed Churches in America	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+1,137	47.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+5	-1,074	-8.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+5	+2,509	179.0%
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+849	494.0%
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+1,770	116.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+529	3.0%
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+9,350	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	+2	+1,023	n.a.
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+443	135.0%
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+13,428	17.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+33	1.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+126	65.0%
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+2	-890	-27.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	+2	-1,436	-53.0%
Netherlands Reformed Congregations	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+816	n.a.
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+53	n.a.
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-105	-4.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	+1	-102	-7.0%
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+236	n.a.
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	+1	+15	38.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+1,196	159.0%
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-160	-39.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+46	n.a.
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+470	181.0%
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	+1	+515	n.a.
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+260	152.0%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+1	+914	83.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	+1	-39	0.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+830	50.0%
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+91	138.0%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	0	-547	-23.0%
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-36	-36.0%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	0	+6	15.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	-4,105	-28.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+48	87.0%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	0	-114	-80.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	+1,332	68.0%
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	-1	-736	-1.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-185	-7.0%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+997	608.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	-1	-2,122	-28.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-1,219	-60.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-3	+23	1.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	-4	-64	-6.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	-11	+41,857	32.0%
	Totals:	+91	+102,154	+25.3%

The population of these 4 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 840,824; in 2000 it was 1,088,514. The total population changed 16.1%. The adherent totals for 1980 (408,748) represent 48.6% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (536,823) include 49.3% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 50 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 50 groups had 403,352 adherents in 1980 and 505,506 adherents in 2000, for a change of 25.3%

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 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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