Louisville, KY-IN MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

225,374	95,830	1,660	204,080	15,817	482,837
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	97	204,080	199.0
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	240	155,741	151.9
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	131	39,439	38.5
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	55	20,793	20.3
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	33	15,038	14.7
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	50	13,804	13.5
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	33	10,969	10.7
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	75	9,887	9.6
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	5	8,700	8.5
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	21	8,041	7.8
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	22	7,234	7.1
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	21	6,841	6.7
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	28	5,060	4.9
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	13	4,882	4.8
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	18	4,481	4.4
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	12	3,647	3.6
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	22	3,197	3.1
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	5	2,792	2.7
Muslim Estimate	Other Theology	5	2,652	2.6
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	11	2,553	2.5
Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, The	Orthodox	1	1,408	1.4
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	14	1,334	1.3
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,283	1.3
Separate Baptists in Christ	Evangelical Protestant	6	803	0.8
International Council of Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	740	0.7
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	12	686	0.7
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	10	651	0.6
Old Missionary Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	4	608	0.6
National Primitive Baptist Convention, USA	Evangelical Protestant	8	606	0.6
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	3	573	0.6
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	512	0.5
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	3	466	0.5
International Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	422	0.4
Community of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	5	388	0.4
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	279	0.3
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	252	0.3
Bahá'í	Other Theology	2	245	0.2
New Testament Association of Independent Baptist Churches and other Fundamental Baptist Associations/Fellowships	Evangelical Protestant	1	247	0.2
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	2	236	0.2
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	165	0.2
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	140	0.1
Vineyard USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	130	0.1
Conservative Mennonite Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	125	0.1
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	117	0.1
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	2	116	0.1
General Association of Regular Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	90	0.1
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	72	0.1
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	72	0.1
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	62	0.1
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	44	0.0
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	2	46	0.0
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection	Evangelical Protestant	1	12	0.0
Southwide Baptist Fellowship	Evangelical Protestant	5	n.a.	n.a.
Reformed Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Primitive Baptist Churches--Old Line	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Buddhism	Other Theology	3	n.a.	n.a.
Calvary Chapel Fellowship Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Hindu	Other Theology	3	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	1,012	542,761
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		664,582

The population of these 7 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 948,829; in 2000 it was 1,025,598. The total population changed 8.1%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (542,761) include 52.9% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (664,582) include 64.8% 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.

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