Pine Bluff, AR MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

31,169	6,721		2,011	389	43,988
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	+1,740	38.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+879	5.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+285	206.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+204	11.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+127	n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+118	n.a.
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+78	34.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	+55	20.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-20	-67.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	-28	-2.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	-55	-37.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	-68	-52.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-96	-28.0%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	-113	-79.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-128	-53.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	-189	-15.0%
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-239	-59.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	-287	-52.0%
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-296	-22.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-444	-53.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-2	-740	-38.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-3	-2,723	-36.0%
	Totals:	+7	-1,940	-4.6%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 90,718; in 2000 it was 84,278. The total population changed -1.4%. The adherent totals for 1980 (42,467) represent 46.8% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (40,290) include 47.8% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 22 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 22 groups had 42,200 adherents in 1980 and 40,260 adherents in 2000, for a change of -4.6%

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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