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