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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 % Change
American Baptist Association, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +1,219 53.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant +1 +121 n.a.
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +7 +3,116 29.0%
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant +3 +525 30.0%
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant +1 +147 193.0%
Catholic Church Catholic +4 +22,122 143.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +138 50.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant +1 +254 23.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +2 +581 35.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant +3 -1,207 -49.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +3 +3,280 75.0%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +3 +150 n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +6 +1,332 96.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +5 +2,226 129.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +1 -93 -2.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant +1 -255 -6.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +3 3.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant +2 +575 48.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 0 -665 -66.0%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant +1 +30 n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +1 +87 n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +3 +4,400 n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +2 +1,400 n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +2 +169 204.0%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant +1 +494 642.0%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +1 +1,104 563.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +754 19.0%
Missionary Church, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +68 110.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant +11 +1,119 n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant +2 +103 n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -2 +447 7.0%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +3 +223 37.0%
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA Evangelical Protestant +1 +61 n.a.
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +117 36.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +5 +489 60.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +26 +10,728 19.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 +99 183.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant +1 +202 n.a.
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant +3 +536 3.0%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +210 n.a.
  Totals: +107 +56,409 +39.7%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 321,652; in 2000 it was 483,924. The total population changed 19.4%. The adherent totals for 1980 (142,138) represent 44.2% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (202,576) include 41.9% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 40 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 40 groups had 141,949 adherents in 1980 and 198,358 adherents in 2000, for a change of 39.7%

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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