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Huntsville, AL MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

126,992 38,998 213 16,574 4,831 154,768
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
American Baptist Association, The Evangelical Protestant 1 97 0.4
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 6 887 3.7
Catholic Church Catholic 6 8,473 34.9
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 1 47 0.2
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 45 0.2
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 3 1,200 4.9
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 2 302 1.2
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 6 1,479 6.1
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 9 1,318 5.4
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 2 954 3.9
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 5 821 3.4
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 84 16,800 69.1
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 1 91 0.4
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 7 1,099 4.5
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 5 2,265 9.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 3 1,418 5.8
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 1 72 0.3
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 1 152 0.6
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 2 321 1.3
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 2 978 4.0
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 14 5,120 21.1
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 3 341 1.4
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 175 0.7
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 4 2,721 11.2
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 98 56,585 232.9
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 130 0.5
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 2 196 0.8
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 60 19,234 79.2
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 60 0.3
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 332 123,381  

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 242,971. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (123,381) include 50.8% 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.