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