Las Cruces, NM MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

18,562	7,105		105,130	4,315	39,570
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
Catholic Church	Catholic	+10	+50,814	93.6%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+1,610	99.6%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	0	+1,026	11.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	+699	34.5%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	+363	37.2%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+189	78.8%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+184	125.2%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+155	83.3%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+102	81.6%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+86	88.7%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	+75	14.3%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+72	100.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	0	+49	55.1%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+45	6.1%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+43	41.0%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	+1	+42	116.7%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+30	20.7%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+11	18.3%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+10	4.5%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-10	-27.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-31	-24.6%
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	0	-36	-36.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	-78	-40.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	-105	-9.5%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	-118	-8.9%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	-351	-8.5%
	Totals:	+18	+54,876	+70.3%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 135,510; in 2000 it was 174,682. The total population changed 28.9%. The adherent totals for 1990 (79,464) represent 58.6% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (135,112) include 77.3% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 26 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 26 groups had 78,029 adherents in 1990 and 132,905 adherents in 2000, for a change of 70.3%

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 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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