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Muncie, IN MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

11,681 12,732   7,081 924 86,351
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
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 3 1,940 16.2
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 3 795 6.6
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 2,284 19.1
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio) Evangelical Protestant 2 284 2.4
Catholic Church Catholic 2 5,621 47.0
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 1 109 0.9
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 20 0.2
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 5 1,766 14.8
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 2 766 6.4
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 1 n.a. n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 9 985 8.2
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 1 137 1.1
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 1 40 0.3
Church of God, Mountain Assembly, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 1 77 0.6
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 2 672 5.6
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 3 188 1.6
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 16 3,462 28.9
Church of the United Brethren in Christ Evangelical Protestant 2 117 1.0
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 9 1,472 12.3
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 1 156 1.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 3 1,086 9.1
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 2 522 4.4
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 4,000 33.4
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 2 1,450 12.1
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 2 462 3.9
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 1 160 1.3
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 472 3.9
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant 2 26 0.2
Midwest Congregational Christian Fellowship Evangelical Protestant 3 180 1.5
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 2 1,322 11.1
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 1 418 3.5
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 63 0.5
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 2 119 1.0
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 9 2,348 19.6
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 304 2.5
United Baptists Evangelical Protestant 3 1,121 9.4
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 4 1,097 9.2
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 32 8,526 71.3
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 3 355 3.0
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 140 44,922  
The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 119,659. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (44,922) include 37.5% 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.