Kalamazoo-Battle Creek, MI MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

58,281	46,393	73	43,152	5,359	299,593
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	21	49,708	115.8
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	53	15,580	36.3
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	13,520	31.5
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	20	10,253	23.9
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	12	6,988	16.3
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	14	6,892	16.1
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	21	6,752	15.7
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	12	4,458	10.4
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	11	4,223	9.8
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	12	3,866	9.0
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	14	3,853	9.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	9	3,808	8.9
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	14	3,206	7.5
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	15	2,870	6.7
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	7	2,748	6.4
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	4	2,125	5.0
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,749	4.1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,496	3.5
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	11	1,278	3.0
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	4	1,180	2.8
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,079	2.5
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	12	1,013	2.4
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	6	732	1.7
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	3	678	1.6
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	5	617	1.4
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	5	601	1.4
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	600	1.4
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	2	588	1.4
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	492	1.2
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	442	1.0
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	402	0.9
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	384	0.9
Netherlands Reformed Congregations	Evangelical Protestant	1	360	0.8
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	3	331	0.8
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	5	328	0.8
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	2	297	0.7
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	263	0.6
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	1	206	0.5
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	192	0.5
Evangelical Mennonite Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	182	0.4
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	2	150	0.4
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	2	149	0.4
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	149	0.4
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	3	133	0.3
International Pentecostal Church of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	128	0.3
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	2	127	0.3
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	2	124	0.3
Church of the Lutheran Confession	Evangelical Protestant	1	121	0.3
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	85	0.2
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	80	0.2
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	2	78	0.2
Church of the United Brethren in Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	73	0.2
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	50	0.1
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	50	0.1
Old Regular Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	2	44	0.1
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	40	0.1
Churches of God, General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	39	0.1
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	37	0.1
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses	Orthodox	0	16	0.0
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	5	n.a.	n.a.
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	2	n.a.	n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	12	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	386	158,013

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 429,453. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (158,013) include 36.8% 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.