Parkersburg-Marietta, WV-OH MSA
Denominational Groups, 2000
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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
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| Religious Bodies |
Theology |
Congregations |
Adherents |
Adherence Rate† |
| United Methodist Church, The |
Mainline Protestant |
99 |
19,449 |
130.4 |
| American Baptist Churches in the USA |
Mainline Protestant |
34 |
14,923 |
100.0 |
| Catholic Church |
Catholic |
10 |
10,209 |
68.4 |
| Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
35 |
5,768 |
38.7 |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) |
Mainline Protestant |
14 |
2,760 |
18.5 |
| Southern Baptist Convention |
Evangelical Protestant |
6 |
2,477 |
16.6 |
| Church of the Nazarene |
Evangelical Protestant |
10 |
2,322 |
15.6 |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
3 |
1,688 |
11.3 |
| Christian Churches and Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
9 |
1,526 |
10.2 |
| Episcopal Church |
Mainline Protestant |
4 |
1,489 |
10.0 |
| United Church of Christ |
Mainline Protestant |
9 |
1,483 |
9.9 |
| Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) |
Evangelical Protestant |
7 |
1,072 |
7.2 |
| International Pentecostal Holiness Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
888 |
6.0 |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The |
Other Theology |
2 |
600 |
4.0 |
| Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) |
Mainline Protestant |
3 |
578 |
3.9 |
| Black Baptists Estimate |
Evangelical Protestant |
n.a. |
557 |
3.7 |
| Seventh-day Adventist Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
4 |
485 |
3.3 |
| Wesleyan Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
9 |
435 |
2.9 |
| Assemblies of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
397 |
2.7 |
| Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
375 |
2.5 |
| Conservative Congregational Christian Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
343 |
2.3 |
| Evangelical Methodist Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
336 |
2.3 |
| Jewish Estimate |
Other Theology |
2 |
300 |
2.0 |
| Salvation Army, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
253 |
1.7 |
| Old Order Amish Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
150 |
1.0 |
| Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
105 |
0.7 |
| Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
92 |
0.6 |
| Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations |
Other Theology |
1 |
65 |
0.4 |
| National Association of Free Will Baptists |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
50 |
0.3 |
| Church of God of Prophecy |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
45 |
0.3 |
| Church of God (Seventh Day) |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
28 |
0.2 |
| Friends (Quakers) |
Mainline Protestant |
1 |
20 |
0.1 |
| Church of the United Brethren in Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
17 |
0.1 |
| Brethren In Christ Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
5 |
0.0 |
| Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc. |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Church of Christ, Scientist |
Other Theology |
2 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Independent Fundamental Churches of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
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Totals (Unadjusted)*:
| 287 |
71,290 |
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The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 149,169. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (71,290) include 47.8% 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.
