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Lansing-East Lansing, MI MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

44,549 40,210 1,011 73,978 8,357 279,623
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
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 64 19,890 47.4
Catholic Church Catholic 23 57,592 137.2
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 19 3,900 9.3
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 17 7,216 17.2
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 15 2,211 5.3
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 13 7,594 18.1
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 12 7,225 17.2
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 12 1,940 4.6
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 11 6,036 14.4
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 11 5,243 12.5
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 10 2,781 6.6
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 10 4,660 11.1
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 9 761 1.8
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 9 968 2.3
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 9 2,185 5.2
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 7 1,970 4.7
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 5 1,711 4.1
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 5 2,681 6.4
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 5 2,076 5.0
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 4 2,898 6.9
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 3 932 2.2
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 3 955 2.3
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 3 363 0.9
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 2 174 0.4
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 2 70 0.2
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 2 814 1.9
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 2 227 0.5
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 2 255 0.6
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 1 50 0.1
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 143 0.3
Evangelical Methodist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 75 0.2
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 32 0.1
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 1 480 1.1
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 1 28 0.1
Missionary Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 81 0.2
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 284 0.7
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 1 96 0.2
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 448 1.1
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 299 147,045  

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 419,750. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (147,045) include 35.0% 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.