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
Catholic Church	Catholic	+1	+14,057	117.8%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-189	-11.1%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-140	-17.4%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+106	10.7%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	0	0	0.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+406	145.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	0	+7	17.9%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	-34	-8.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+3	1.6%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+237	35.1%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+22	44.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+302	47.3%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+4	-174	-4.8%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	+79	6.5%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+134	8.2%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	+1	-215	-9.6%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	+51	6.4%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	+1	+426	11.2%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	+55	13.1%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+2	+2,200	550.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+6	7.6%
	Totals:	+13	+17,339	+54.3%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 110,975; in 2000 it was 141,627. The total population changed 27.6%. The adherent totals for 1990 (33,349) represent 30.1% of the 1990 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 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 21 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 21 groups had 31,958 adherents in 1990 and 49,297 adherents in 2000, for a change of 54.3%

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 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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