Hattiesburg, MS MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

51,962	11,143		6,012	2,286	40,271
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^†
Catholic Church	Catholic	4	3,389	37.7
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	200	2.2
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	4	529	5.9
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	12	2,714	30.2
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	3	480	5.3
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	7	609	6.8
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	1	125	1.4
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	7	532	5.9
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	2	36	0.4
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	171	1.9
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,049	11.7
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	96	1.1
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	468	5.2
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	50	30,337	337.7
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	1	237	2.6
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	2	837	9.3
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	3	408	4.5
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	33	8,675	96.6
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	599	6.7
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	1	155	1.7
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	143	51,646

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 89,839. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (51,646) include 57.5% 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.