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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
American Baptist Association, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -298 -30.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 0 -458 -18.0%
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant -2 -998 -72.0%
Catholic Church Catholic +3 +7,817 33.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +29 54.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 0 +710 30.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +1 +382 28.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant +1 -242 -56.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 0 +147 41.0%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +1 +35 n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +1 +232 17.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant -1 -259 -27.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +3 -867 -10.0%
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant +2 -181 -38.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant +2 -474 -17.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 -1,059 -51.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant -1 -135 -69.0%
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +3 +1,625 n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +7 +7,750 n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +1 +149 36.0%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 0 -39 -63.0%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +2 +200 n.a.
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant +2 -617 -48.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant +1 +55 n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -2 -460 -10.0%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +34 10.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +3 +284 196.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +21 +9,934 21.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 +35 51.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant +3 -3,050 -23.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant +1 +22 n.a.
  Totals: +52 20,303 +17.5%

The population of these 2 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 198,010; in 2000 it was 237,132. The total population changed 5.1%. The adherent totals for 1980 (116,201) represent 58.7% of the 1980 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 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 31 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 31 groups had 116,092 adherents in 1980 and 136,395 adherents in 2000, for a change of 17.5%

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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