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