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^†
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	98	67,167	165.7
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	43	13,197	32.6
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	33	20,758	51.2
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	30	5,997	14.8
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	28	4,020	9.9
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	15	2,986	7.4
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	14	6,702	16.5
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	12	4,494	11.1
Catholic Church	Catholic	9	25,292	62.4
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,171	2.9
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,534	3.8
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	6	933	2.3
Primitive Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	6	167	0.4
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	6	708	1.8
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	5	2,064	5.1
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	5	4,667	11.5
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	5	1,359	3.4
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	5	1,289	3.2
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	4	n.a.	n.a.
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,719	4.2
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	532	1.3
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	3	127	0.3
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	3	1,950	4.8
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	2	82	0.2
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	2	1,035	2.6
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	275	0.7
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	2	204	0.5
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	2,750	6.8
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	50	0.1
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	1	21	0.1
Church of the Lutheran Confession	Evangelical Protestant	1	101	0.3
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	75	0.2
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	1	83	0.2
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	1	205	0.5
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	94	0.2
Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	126	0.3
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	44	0.1
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	135	0.3
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	85	0.2
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	1	0	0.0
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	220	0.5
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	12	0.0
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	36	0.1
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	15	0.0
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	17,240	42.5
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	383	191,721

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 405,382. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (191,721) include 47.3% of the total population in 1990.

Source

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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^†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.