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	% Change
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+2	-1,211	-36.0%
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-959	-71.7%
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+1,334	4.5%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	+1,199	64.8%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+147	9.2%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-15	-7.3%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+12	2.4%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	0	+9	34.6%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	-1	-259	-14.1%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	-149	-17.8%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-417	-5.2%
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	+2	-499	-62.8%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	+2	-228	-8.8%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-445	-30.2%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+2	3.4%
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+425	35.4%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-825	-9.6%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	0	+131	30.7%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-20	-46.5%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+2	+50	33.3%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-818	-54.8%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-176	-76.2%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-1	-967	-18.5%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+168	82.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+114	36.2%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+10	-1,659	-2.9%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	-72	-40.9%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	-3,422	-24.8%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-34	-60.7%
	Totals:	+9	-8,584	-6.0%

The population of these 2 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 225,545; in 2000 it was 237,132. The total population changed 5.1%. The adherent totals for 1990 (150,895) represent 66.9% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (137,108) include 57.8% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 29 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 29 groups had 144,192 adherents in 1990 and 135,608 adherents in 2000, for a change of -6.0%

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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