Panama City, FL MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

39,815	12,703	123	7,025	1,802	86,749
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	0	+653	20.7%
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+3,662	108.9%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+116	114.9%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+55	23.8%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-60	-63.2%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+114	30.1%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	0	+14	16.3%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+2	+167	13.1%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	-76	-31.7%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	-218	-13.9%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	+1	+324	29.4%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-4	-1.1%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+800	228.6%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	0	-1,335	-74.2%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+453	42.8%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	0	+60	146.3%
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	-46	-60.5%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	-204	-13.9%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-123	-13.4%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+53	54.6%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+75	16.9%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+1,316	4.9%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	-15	-53.6%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	+1	+210	2.2%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+44	733.3%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+6	7.9%
	Totals:	+14	+6,041	+11.1%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 126,994; in 2000 it was 148,217. The total population changed 16.7%. The adherent totals for 1990 (59,014) represent 46.5% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (61,468) include 41.5% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 26 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 26 groups had 54,381 adherents in 1990 and 60,422 adherents in 2000, for a change of 11.1%

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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