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Little Rock-North Little Rock, AR MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

226,578 61,424 495 39,353 6,317 249,678
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
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 9 2,227 4.7
American Baptist Association, The Evangelical Protestant 74 20,242 42.7
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 45 7,265 15.3
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 2 238 0.5
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 48 13,427 28.3
Catholic Church Catholic 18 18,001 37.9
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 1 86 0.2
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 15 2,571 5.4
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 3 368 0.8
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 4 1,281 2.7
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 10 629 1.3
Church of God General Conference Evangelical Protestant 2 145 0.3
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 5 1,986 4.2
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 26 4,928 10.4
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 63 14,208 29.9
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 3 395 0.8
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 9 6,577 13.9
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 2 465 1.0
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 93 0.2
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 3 460 1.0
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 1 945 2.0
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 9 3,443 7.3
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 34 6,526 13.8
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 1 122 0.3
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 2 396 0.8
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada Evangelical Protestant 2 79 0.2
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 4 462 1.0
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 150 101,224 213.3
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 227 0.5
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 2 213 0.5
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 94 48,139 101.5
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant 1 60 0.1
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 77 0.2
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 645 257,505  

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 474,484. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (257,505) include 54.3% 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.