Lake Charles, LA MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

46,487	11,987	60	59,826	1,374	63,843
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	26	49,177	294.1
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	42	31,867	190.6
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	19	9,928	59.4
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	4	2,137	12.8
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	13	1,718	10.3
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,521	9.1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	3	1,259	7.5
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,152	6.9
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	3	857	5.1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	3	651	3.9
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	2	577	3.5
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	2	560	3.4
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	6	430	2.6
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	304	1.8
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	1	235	1.4
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	217	1.3
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	125	0.8
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	1	87	0.5
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	19	0.1
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	142	102,821

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 167,223. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (102,821) include 61.5% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

^†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.