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	48	24,583	72.5
Catholic Church	Catholic	36	54,540	160.8
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	24	3,690	10.9
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	23	13,961	41.2
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	21	8,021	23.7
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	19	6,301	18.6
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	18	10,318	30.4
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	16	7,036	20.7
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	14	2,887	8.5
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	13	3,346	9.9
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	13	3,511	10.4
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	11	1,419	4.2
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	11	5,623	16.6
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	10	3,704	10.9
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	9	5,381	15.9
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,164	3.4
Evangelical Mennonite Church	Evangelical Protestant	5	994	2.9
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	5	n.a.	n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	5	601	1.8
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	4	370	1.1
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	346	1.0
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	3	319	0.9
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	3	n.a.	n.a.
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	3	430	1.3
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	3	2,691	7.9
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	3	626	1.9
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	472	1.4
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	309	0.9
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	121	0.4
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	2	154	0.5
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	2	173	0.5
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	2	950	2.8
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean)	Evangelical Protestant	2	255	0.8
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	2	97	0.3
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	2	1,294	3.8
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	2	n.a.	n.a.
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	63	0.2
Fire Baptized Holiness Church, (Wesleyan), The	Evangelical Protestant	1	21	0.1
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	237	0.7
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	45	0.1
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	250	0.7
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	1	214	0.6
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	21	0.1
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	75	0.2
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	139	0.4
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	300	0.9
Church of the United Brethren in Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	60	0.2
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	500	1.5
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	7,657	22.6
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	366	175,269

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 339,172. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (175,269) include 51.7% 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.