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.
[More information on the data sources]

Reports

Religious Bodies	Theology	Congregations	Adherents	Adherence Rate^†
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	79	26,830	46.0
Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, The	Orthodox	1	78	0.1
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	41	9,618	16.5
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	95	0.2
Bahá'í	Other Theology	3	602	1.0
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	42	16,796	28.8
Buddhism	Other Theology	2	n.a.	n.a.
Calvary Chapel Fellowship Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Catholic Church	Catholic	20	39,353	67.4
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	54	0.1
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	13	2,801	4.8
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	4	477	0.8
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	6	282	0.5
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	7	817	1.4
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	119	0.2
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	4	145	0.3
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	10	3,392	5.8
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	24	5,532	9.5
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	75	15,368	26.3
Community of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	79	0.1
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	252	0.4
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	10	5,240	9.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	3	538	0.9
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	19	0.0
General Association of Regular Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	61	0.1
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	417	0.7
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	7,074	12.1
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	5	3,150	5.4
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	4	726	1.2
International Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	110	0.2
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	12	0.0
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	2	1,100	1.9
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	13	4,065	7.0
Muslim Estimate	Other Theology	3	984	1.7
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	14	1,768	3.0
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	17	1,445	2.5
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	16	5,443	9.3
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	2	372	0.6
Primitive Baptist Churches--Old Line	Evangelical Protestant	5	n.a.	n.a.
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	5	386	0.7
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,143	2.0
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	187	129,583	222.0
Southwide Baptist Fellowship	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	239	0.4
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	2	118	0.2
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	87	47,182	80.8
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	2	83	0.1
Vineyard USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	162	0.3
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	57	0.1
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	733	334,167
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		437,717

The population of these 4 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 513,117; in 2000 it was 583,845. The total population changed 13.8%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (334,167) include 57.2% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (437,717) include 75.0% of the population.

Source

^*The “Unadjusted Totals” come from the 1990 and 2000 data collected by representatives of the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). While quite comprehensive, this data excludes most of the historically African-American denominations and some other major groups. As a result, these numbers will be an underestimate of the total adherence rate, particularly in areas with a large African-American population. The 2000 data included 149 religious groups and the final results are published in Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Copyright © 2002, All rights reserved. The 1990 data included 132 groups and the final results are published in Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990 Copyright © 1990, All rights reserved. Published by Glenmary Research Center, 1312 Fifth Ave., North, Nashville, TN 37208. www.glenmary.org/grc [More information on the data collection]

^**The “Adjusted Totals” include all adherents in the denominations counted by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and estimates adherent totals for the historically African-American denominations and other religious groups not listed in the ASARB totals. An article by Roger Finke and Christopher P. Scheitle (2005) reviews how these estimates were computed.

^†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.

[More information on the data source]