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Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

127,043 33,525 87 37,589 4,332 281,348
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 7 15,467 48.1
American Baptist Association, The Evangelical Protestant 14 2,300 7.2
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 36 10,670 33.2
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 3 1,750 5.4
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 1 76 0.2
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 2 277 0.9
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 7 1,669 5.2
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 8 2,475 7.7
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 28 4,399 13.7
Church of God (Seventh Day) Evangelical Protestant 1 20 0.1
Church of the Lutheran Confession Evangelical Protestant 1 169 0.5
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 9 1,731 5.4
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 26 3,818 11.9
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 1 109 0.3
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 3 1,005 3.1
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 1 83 0.3
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 1 77 0.2
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 5 4,017 12.5
Missionary Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 62 0.2
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 2 597 1.9
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 2 321 1.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 6 810 2.5
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 93 57,071 177.4
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 4 1,101 3.4
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 11 4,655 14.5
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 3 1,199 3.7
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 16 6,256 19.5
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 30 18,314 56.9
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 4 1,390 4.3
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 1 196 0.6
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 54 0.2
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 328 142,138  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 321,652. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (142,138) include 44.2% 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.