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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
American Baptist Association, The Evangelical Protestant -1 -54 -27.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +16 +4,057 238.0%
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +62 n.a.
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 0 +102 104.0%
Catholic Church Catholic -2 +77,439 54.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +8 +508 157.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant -2 -733 -48.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -1 -289 -48.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 0 -51 -53.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +1 +98 265.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +9 +3,596 192.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 0 +103 13.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +8 +474 34.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 -30 -2.0%
Evangelical Covenant Church, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +140 182.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +210 n.a.
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant +1 +791 70.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 0 -26 -32.0%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +1 -174 -52.0%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant +10 +783 146.0%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 0 +208 71.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant +1 +11 1.0%
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of Evangelical Protestant +1 -88 -31.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant +2 +118 n.a.
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant -1 -5 -5.0%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox +1 +122 n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant +1 +70 n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 0 -562 -25.0%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +2 +60 n.a.
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +32 14.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +8 +1,361 133.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +29 +7,101 44.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 +9 41.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant +2 +274 3.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +18 44.0%
  Totals: +98 95,735 +50.7%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 283,229; in 2000 it was 569,463. The total population changed 48.5%. The adherent totals for 1980 (188,844) represent 66.7% of the 1980 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 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 35 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 35 groups had 188,721 adherents in 1980 and 284,456 adherents in 2000, for a change of 50.7%

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 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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