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Jackson, MS MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

153,810 53,903 516 14,991 4,574 213,007
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
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant -1 -507 -20.8%
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant -2 -642 -30.4%
Catholic Church Catholic +1 +3,119 26.3%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 0 -38 -3.4%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 -194 -66.9%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 0 +163 50.8%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +2 +512 37.3%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 0 -23 -13.5%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +3 +634 49.2%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant -3 -352 -39.7%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +1 +1,266 36.8%
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 0 -83 n.a.
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 +648 9.8%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 +147 27.1%
Evangelical Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant +1 +264 55.2%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -1 -875 -70.0%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -3 -2,900 -82.9%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 0 -74 -59.7%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant +1 -95 -41.1%
Interstate & Foreign Landmark Missionary Baptists Association Evangelical Protestant 0 +15 24.6%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology -1 -149 -21.3%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant -1 -220 -23.9%
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant 0 -13 -24.5%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant +1 -126 -43.3%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant -1 -58 -37.9%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -1 -78 -2.9%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 0 +828 12.0%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +118 73.8%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 0 -209 -9.7%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +10 +6,277 5.1%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 +13 24.5%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 0 +1 2.1%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -9 +7,589 21.9%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant -1 -110 -52.4%
  Totals: -4 +14,848 +7.1%

The population of these 3 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 395,396; in 2000 it was 440,801. The total population changed 11.5%. The adherent totals for 1990 (262,425) represent 66.4% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (227,794) include 51.7% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 34 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 34 groups had 209,358 adherents in 1990 and 224,206 adherents in 2000, for a change of 7.1%

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 1990 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and include statistics for 132 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Martin B. Bradley, Norman M. Green, Jr., Dale E. Jones, Mac Lynn, and Lou McNeil supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1990, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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