Odessa-Midland, TX MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

82,660	21,062	135	31,212	2,039	100,024
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^†
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses	Orthodox	1	72	0.3
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	11	3,365	14.9
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,338	5.9
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	6,105	27.1
Catholic Church	Catholic	11	29,878	132.5
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	4	1,851	8.2
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,598	7.1
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	2	n.a.	n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	1	205	0.9
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	4	494	2.2
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	2	110	0.5
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	1	26	0.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	6	1,834	8.1
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	5	839	3.7
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	33	8,021	35.6
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	795	3.5
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	3	2,585	11.5
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	4	1,472	6.5
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	175	0.8
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	2	58	0.3
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	11	0.1
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	1,200	5.3
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	9	8,575	38.0
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	3	427	1.9
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	43	0.2
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	150	0.7
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,492	6.6
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	2	231	1.0
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	6	5,234	23.2
Primitive Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	2	230	1.0
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	205	0.9
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	5	315	1.4
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	48	57,946	256.9
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	2	176	0.8
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	17	13,783	61.1
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	56	0.3
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	207	150,895

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 225,545. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (150,895) include 66.9% 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.