Peoria-Pekin, IL MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

54,694	50,922	555	55,237	5,855	180,124
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^†
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	47	27,953	76.4
Catholic Church	Catholic	38	56,247	153.7
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	22	13,270	36.3
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	21	10,876	29.7
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	19	6,551	17.9
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	17	8,015	21.9
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	17	11,454	31.3
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	15	3,628	9.9
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	13	1,601	4.4
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	13	3,923	10.7
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	11	6,788	18.6
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	10	2,865	7.8
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	10	4,265	11.7
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,132	3.1
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	7	2,097	5.7
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,431	3.9
Evangelical Mennonite Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	744	2.0
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,770	4.8
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	3	213	0.6
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	3	358	1.0
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	3	735	2.0
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	3	119	0.3
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	3	819	2.2
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	150	0.4
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	2	1,081	3.0
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarene)	Evangelical Protestant	2	238	0.7
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	862	2.4
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	483	1.3
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	2	135	0.4
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	2	202	0.6
Fire Baptized Holiness Church, (Wesleyan), The	Evangelical Protestant	1	9	0.0
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	113	0.3
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	43	0.1
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	131	0.4
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	61	0.2
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	227	0.6
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	1	584	1.6
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	67	0.2
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	318	171,240

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 365,864. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (171,240) include 46.8% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

^†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.