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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 % Change
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection Evangelical Protestant +2 +25 n.a.
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant +1 -964 -47.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +3 -83 -12.0%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant +1 +192 27.0%
Catholic Church Catholic -1 -11,384 -25.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +52 20.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 0 -46 -74.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant +1 -235 -35.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant -1 +280 384.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 0 +178 41.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +1 -41 -14.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 -26 -25.0%
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant 0 +372 53.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 -1,118 -42.0%
Evangelical Covenant Church, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -153 -11.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant +1 -1,434 -20.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 0 -50 -6.0%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant +1 +88 251.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +1 +243 n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 0 +65 71.0%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology -1 -115 -54.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 -341 -46.0%
Old Order Amish Church Evangelical Protestant -1 -691 -63.0%
Orthodox Church in America: Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese Orthodox +1 +200 n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 0 -1,104 -34.0%
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 -96 -14.0%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +2 -336 -28.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 0 -64 -27.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +3 +186 149.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology +1 +8 6.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -1 -696 -52.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -8 -2,751 -20.0%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +5 +1,360 n.a.
  Totals: +13 -18,479 -21.2%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 146,925; in 2000 it was 139,750. The total population changed -1.5%. The adherent totals for 1980 (87,855) represent 59.8% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (70,267) include 50.3% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 33 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 33 groups had 87,075 adherents in 1980 and 68,596 adherents in 2000, for a change of -21.2%

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 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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