Richland-Kennewick-Pasco, WA MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

20,401	14,999		33,724	14,116	108,582
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^†
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	29	0.2
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	3	564	2.9
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean)	Evangelical Protestant	1	70	0.4
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	13	3,018	15.7
Bahá'í	Other Theology	3	129	0.7
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	47	0.3
Buddhism	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
Calvary Chapel Fellowship Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Catholic Church	Catholic	8	33,724	175.8
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	382	2.0
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	3	1,309	6.8
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	567	3.0
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	158	0.8
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	1	480	2.5
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	6	733	3.8
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite	Evangelical Protestant	1	119	0.6
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	2	81	0.4
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	37	13,274	69.2
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,468	7.7
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	8	901	4.7
Community of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	156	0.8
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	3	2,234	11.7
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	4	1,005	5.2
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	168	0.9
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	125	0.7
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	8	3,770	19.7
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	20	0.1
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	28	0.2
General Association of Regular Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,289	6.7
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	0	0.0
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	2	388	2.0
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	247	1.3
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	1	300	1.6
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,695	8.8
Muslim Estimate	Other Theology	1	288	1.5
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	89	0.5
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	49	0.3
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	10	2,453	12.8
Primitive Baptist Churches--Old Line	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	233	1.2
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,473	7.7
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	14	3,703	19.3
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	125	0.7
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	2	191	1.0
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	13	5,658	29.5
United Reformed Churches in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	159	0.8
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	21	0.1
Vineyard USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	103	0.5
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	217	1.1
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	195	83,240
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		93,138

The population of these 2 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 150,033; in 2000 it was 191,822. The total population changed 27.9%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (83,240) include 43.4% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (93,138) include 48.6% of the population.

Source

^*The “Unadjusted Totals” come from the 1990 and 2000 data collected by representatives of the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). While quite comprehensive, this data excludes most of the historically African-American denominations and some other major groups. As a result, these numbers will be an underestimate of the total adherence rate, particularly in areas with a large African-American population. The 2000 data included 149 religious groups and the final results are published in Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Copyright © 2002, All rights reserved. The 1990 data included 132 groups and the final results are published in Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990 Copyright © 1990, All rights reserved. Published by Glenmary Research Center, 1312 Fifth Ave., North, Nashville, TN 37208. www.glenmary.org/grc [More information on the data collection]

^**The “Adjusted Totals” include all adherents in the denominations counted by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and estimates adherent totals for the historically African-American denominations and other religious groups not listed in the ASARB totals. An article by Roger Finke and Christopher P. Scheitle (2005) reviews how these estimates were computed.

^†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.

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