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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 % Change
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant -3 +2,101 27.9%
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 0 -42 -30.7%
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant -3 +1,793 12.0%
Catholic Church Catholic +1 +13,868 54.4%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -38 -41.3%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant -1 +550 24.4%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 +23 5.1%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant +2 -57 -16.8%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 0 +101 14.1%
Church of God General Conference Evangelical Protestant +1 +25 26.6%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 0 +4 2.8%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +3 +599 21.4%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant -3 +961 21.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +7 +605 4.1%
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 0 -131 -34.2%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant +1 +186 3.7%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 -62 -10.3%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 -38 -66.7%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -3 -3,250 -50.8%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 0 +392 117.4%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 0 -200 -15.4%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant +2 +370 10.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant 0 +75 4.4%
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant +1 +360 33.2%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -1 -661 -10.8%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 0 -78 -17.3%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +85 28.2%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +1 +149 15.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +25 +3,798 3.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 -126 -34.5%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 0 -43 -26.7%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -1 -1,989 -4.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 -8 -12.3%
  Totals: +31 +19,322 +6.9%

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 adherent totals for 1990 (309,852) represent 60.4% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (334,167) include 57.2% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 33 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 33 groups had 278,353 adherents in 1990 and 297,675 adherents in 2000, for a change of 6.9%

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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