Killeen-Temple, TX MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

90,906	21,305		26,954	4,077	169,710
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
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+335	368.1%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+92	117.9%
Catholic Church	Catholic	+1	+13,433	99.3%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-3	+959	93.5%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	+1,164	60.1%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	+49	51.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+2	+1,023	50.1%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+16	44.4%
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	+15	37.5%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+112	36.7%
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+21	27.3%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+18	+14,713	27.2%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+92	15.2%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	+89	11.3%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+131	4.8%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	+74	4.1%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-2	-210	-1.5%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	+1	-79	-4.8%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-4	-486	-7.9%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-186	-9.2%
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	-93	-14.1%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	0	-6	-14.6%
	Totals:	+16	+31,258	+30.1%

The population of these 2 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 255,301; in 2000 it was 312,952. The total population changed 22.6%. The adherent totals for 1990 (125,194) represent 49.0% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (143,242) include 45.8% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 22 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 22 groups had 103,877 adherents in 1990 and 135,135 adherents in 2000, for a change of 30.1%

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 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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