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	13,846	30.6
Catholic Church	Catholic	22	43,152	95.3
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	20	10,755	23.8
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	18	1,940	4.3
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	18	6,351	14.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	15	3,290	7.3
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	14	5,844	12.9
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	13	2,619	5.8
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	13	1,168	2.6
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	11	7,189	15.9
General Association of Regular Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	11	3,039	6.7
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	11	3,155	7.0
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	11	3,292	7.3
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	10	3,910	8.6
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,841	4.1
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	8	3,796	8.4
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	8	989	2.2
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	8	6,901	15.2
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,865	4.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	7	2,162	4.8
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,458	3.2
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	6	6,350	14.0
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	5	669	1.5
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	5	591	1.3
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,140	2.5
International Council of Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	4	1,121	2.5
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	252	0.6
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,063	2.4
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	501	1.1
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	3	1,650	3.6
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	3	211	0.5
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	3	268	0.6
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	3	232	0.5
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	3	320	0.7
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	199	0.4
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	2	89	0.2
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	2	162	0.4
International Pentecostal Church of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	105	0.2
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	75	0.2
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	483	1.1
Community of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	137	0.3
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	129	0.3
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	2	151	0.3
Vineyard USA	Evangelical Protestant	2	439	1.0
Muslim Estimate	Other Theology	2	1,109	2.5
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	144	0.3
New Testament Association of Independent Baptist Churches and other Fundamental Baptist Associations/Fellowships	Evangelical Protestant	2	408	0.9
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	139	0.3
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	2	333	0.7
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	1,217	2.7
United Reformed Churches in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	322	0.7
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	56	0.1
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	97	0.2
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	1	50	0.1
Churches of God, General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	32	0.1
Bahá'í	Other Theology	1	105	0.2
Buddhism	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
Calvary Chapel Fellowship Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	19	0.0
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	3,600	8.0
Evangelical Mennonite Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	148	0.3
Patriarchal Parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church in the USA	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	32	0.1
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	1	73	0.2
Netherlands Reformed Congregations	Evangelical Protestant	1	308	0.7
Hindu	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
National Primitive Baptist Convention, USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	99	0.2
Protestant Reformed Churches in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	68	0.2
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	395	153,258
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		181,116

The population of these 3 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 429,453; in 2000 it was 452,851. The total population changed 5.4%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (153,258) include 33.8% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (181,116) include 40.0% of the population.

Source

^*The “Unadjusted Totals” come from the 1990 and 2000 data collected by representatives of the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). While quite comprehensive, this data excludes most of the historically African-American denominations and some other major groups. As a result, these numbers will be an underestimate of the total adherence rate, particularly in areas with a large African-American population. The 2000 data included 149 religious groups and the final results are published in Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Copyright © 2002, All rights reserved. The 1990 data included 132 groups and the final results are published in Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990 Copyright © 1990, All rights reserved. Published by Glenmary Research Center, 1312 Fifth Ave., North, Nashville, TN 37208. www.glenmary.org/grc [More information on the data collection]

^**The “Adjusted Totals” include all adherents in the denominations counted by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and estimates adherent totals for the historically African-American denominations and other religious groups not listed in the ASARB totals. An article by Roger Finke and Christopher P. Scheitle (2005) reviews how these estimates were computed.

^†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.

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