Longview-Marshall, TX MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

97,536	22,586		12,957	3,171	72,530
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	+2	+8,261	175.9%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	-4	+7,590	11.7%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+10	+1,608	24.4%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+1	+567	24.1%
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+194	109.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+149	116.4%
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	-2	+97	1.7%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+95	72.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+87	10.8%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	+68	15.1%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	+60	3.1%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+27	10.7%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-8	-6.5%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	0	-18	-15.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	-18	-54.5%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	0	-29	-36.7%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+1	-32	-5.6%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+2	-38	-4.0%
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	-45	-42.1%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	-1	-100	-50.0%
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	0	-150	-21.4%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-246	-61.2%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-248	-48.2%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-2	-334	-13.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-2	-446	-15.3%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-520	-19.1%
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-585	-37.2%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	-2,165	-12.8%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	0	-7,550	-74.0%
	Totals:	+2	+6,271	+4.9%

The population of these 3 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 193,801; in 2000 it was 208,780. The total population changed 7.7%. The adherent totals for 1990 (143,271) represent 73.9% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (136,250) include 65.3% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 29 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 29 groups had 128,543 adherents in 1990 and 134,814 adherents in 2000, for a change of 4.9%

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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