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Lawrence, KS MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

8,262 11,538   7,364 1,911 70,887
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
Catholic Church Catholic 5 5,616 68.7
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 13 4,434 54.2
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 5 2,308 28.2
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 2 1,900 23.2
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 3 1,585 19.4
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 1,054 12.9
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 3 987 12.1
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 2 952 11.6
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 2 888 10.9
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 2 828 10.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 2 756 9.2
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 750 9.2
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 4 643 7.9
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 7 565 6.9
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 1 516 6.3
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 1 424 5.2
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 2 396 4.8
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 2 336 4.1
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 2 280 3.4
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 3 222 2.7
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 190 2.3
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 0 175 2.1
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 2 162 2.0
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 150 1.8
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 1 112 1.4
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant 2 108 1.3
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 106 1.3
Evangelical Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 1 91 1.1
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 48 0.6
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 1 n.a. n.a.
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 1 n.a. n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 75 26,582  
The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 81,798. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (26,582) include 32.5% 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.