Punta Gorda, FL MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

10,511	10,180	606	25,994	3,426	90,910
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	+2	+1,366	911.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	+1	+19,315	289.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+217	48.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+621	129.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-54	-64.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+520	313.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+46	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	+302	174.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+12	3.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	-70	-28.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	+357	38.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+3	+884	101.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	+1	+231	n.a.
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+1	+2,365	1006.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+307	51.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	+2	+259	15.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+72	n.a.
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+597	174.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+773	29.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+18	27.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	+479	128.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	+2	+1,400	49.0%
	Totals:	+27	+30,017	+153.8%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 58,460; in 2000 it was 141,627. The total population changed 27.6%. The adherent totals for 1980 (19,511) represent 33.4% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (50,717) include 35.8% 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 19,511 adherents in 1980 and 49,528 adherents in 2000, for a change of 153.8%

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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