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Jamestown, NY MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

10,876 23,169 443 34,731 1,048 69,483
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
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 49 12,751 89.9
Catholic Church Catholic 26 43,216 304.6
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 13 6,418 45.2
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 9 1,475 10.4
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 8 2,662 18.8
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 7 695 4.9
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 7 2,204 15.5
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 6 1,454 10.3
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 4 288 2.0
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 4 430 3.0
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant 4 902 6.4
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 4 485 3.4
Old Order Amish Church Evangelical Protestant 4 600 4.2
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 3 282 2.0
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 3 587 4.1
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 3 220 1.6
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 3 836 5.9
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 3 847 6.0
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 3 n.a. n.a.
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection Evangelical Protestant 2 40 0.3
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 2 135 1.0
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 2 313 2.2
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 2 246 1.7
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 2 295 2.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 2 560 4.0
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 2 49 0.4
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 2 94 0.7
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 2 624 4.4
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 40 0.3
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 65 0.5
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 1 26 0.2
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 1 630 4.4
Orthodox Church in America: Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 1 n.a. n.a.
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 493 3.5
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 188 79,962  
The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 141,895. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (79,962) include 56.4% of the total population in 1990.

Source

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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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.