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	-3	+77,963	287.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+12	+2,262	235.0%
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+3	5.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+127	127.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-115	-55.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+94	188.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+138	n.a.
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+7	3.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-51	-4.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+145	483.0%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	0	+569	2586.0%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+5	23.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+331	n.a.
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+212	98.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+80	118.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+158	86.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+2,836	38.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+71	n.a.
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	-87	-43.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	-1	+109	9.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+344	78.0%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	+1	+72	1200.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	+2	-18	-2.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	+1	+242	7.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+3	+1,475	118.0%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+1	+600	n.a.
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+52	40.0%
	Totals:	+28	+87,624	+191.0%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 96,340; in 2000 it was 174,682. The total population changed 28.9%. The adherent totals for 1980 (45,872) represent 47.6% of the 1980 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 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 27 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 27 groups had 45,872 adherents in 1980 and 133,496 adherents in 2000, for a change of 191.0%

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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