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McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

41,889 15,955 122 222,149 6,750 282,598
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 +4 +2,676 86.7%
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -41 -39.8%
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 0 -80 -28.6%
Catholic Church Catholic -3 -88,522 -28.5%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +3 +204 32.5%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant -2 -628 -44.3%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +1 +69 28.4%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 0 +5 12.5%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +1 +99 275.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +6 +2,620 92.1%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 0 +94 11.6%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +1 +157 9.2%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 -146 -10.1%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +210 n.a.
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant +2 +700 57.4%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 0 -34 -17.3%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant +5 +920 230.0%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 0 +25 5.3%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +18 1.1%
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of Evangelical Protestant +2 -26 -11.8%
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant +1 -6 -5.6%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant 0 -201 -63.0%
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant -1 -125 -58.1%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant 0 +30 75.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 0 -353 -17.0%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 0 +9 17.6%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +140 123.9%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant -2 -467 -16.4%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +13 +6,244 37.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 +20 181.8%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 0 +100 1.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 -23 -28.0%
  Totals: +31 -76,312 -21.2%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 383,545; in 2000 it was 569,463. The total population changed 48.5%. The adherent totals for 1990 (360,833) represent 94.1% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (286,865) include 50.4% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 32 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 32 groups had 360,330 adherents in 1990 and 284,018 adherents in 2000, for a change of -21.2%

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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