Lubbock, TX MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

80,100	22,516	171	39,327	2,644	97,870
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	14	20,700	93.0
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	17	1,984	8.9
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	7	2,557	11.5
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	7,141	32.1
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	40	0.2
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	323	1.5
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	3	408	1.8
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	2	109	0.5
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	2	42	0.2
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	5	835	3.8
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	33	13,627	61.2
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	698	3.1
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	51	0.2
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	4	8,939	40.2
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	4	3,925	17.6
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	3	247	1.1
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	5	264	1.2
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	4	963	4.3
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	2	128	0.6
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	77	0.4
Primitive Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	2	171	0.8
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	113	0.5
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	1	38	0.2
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	277	1.2
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	52	54,514	244.9
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	143	0.6
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	5	2,360	10.6
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	3	2,115	9.5
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	4	732	3.3
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	9	0.0
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	6	2,164	9.7
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	1	29	0.1
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	21	18,882	84.8
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	4	1,618	7.3
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	1	225	1.0
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	102	0.5
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	218	146,550

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 222,636. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (146,550) include 65.8% of the total population in 1990.

Source

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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^†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.