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	+1	+346	432.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	+4	+16,652	162.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+3	+1,887	160.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+420	151.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+1,811	140.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+218	110.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+27	108.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+77	83.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+14	+26,554	63.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+895	45.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	+2	+562	43.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+1,350	31.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-4	+3,027	28.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-4	+410	26.0%
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	+9	20.0%
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+2	5.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+1	+8	0.0%
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	0	-3	-3.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+2	-301	-26.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-6	-623	-28.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+35	n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	+7	+566	n.a.
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	+1	+145	n.a.
	Totals:	+31	+54,074	+66.7%

The population of these 2 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 214,656; in 2000 it was 312,952. The total population changed 22.6%. The adherent totals for 1980 (81,103) represent 37.8% of the 1980 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 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 23 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 23 groups had 81,103 adherents in 1980 and 135,177 adherents in 2000, for a change of 66.7%

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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