Rockford, IL MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

43,196	58,550	833	78,151	3,444	187,062
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 Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	4	1,550	4.7
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church	Orthodox	1	113	0.3
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	14	4,638	14.1
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,320	4.0
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	7,189	21.8
Catholic Church	Catholic	21	56,826	172.4
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	29	0.1
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	4	528	1.6
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,626	4.9
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	3	n.a.	n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	4	143	0.4
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	3	301	0.9
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	5	453	1.4
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	1	48	0.2
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	3	1,060	3.2
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,064	3.2
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,003	3.0
Church of the United Brethren in Christ	Evangelical Protestant	3	72	0.2
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	11	1,286	3.9
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	75	0.2
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	6	1,717	5.2
Evangelical Congregational Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	76	0.2
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	7	3,131	9.5
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	34	28,428	86.2
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	64	0.2
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	16	0.1
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	3	900	2.7
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	1,100	3.3
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	2	200	0.6
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	84	0.3
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	2	1,000	3.0
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	12	8,086	24.5
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	64	0.2
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	21	0.1
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	4	n.a.	n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	17	7,179	21.8
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	5	1,274	3.9
Reformed Episcopal Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	5	0.0
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	503	1.5
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	415	1.3
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	12	3,386	10.3
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	2	680	2.1
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	11	5,168	15.7
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	41	17,552	53.2
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	181	0.6
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	3	452	1.4
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	283	161,006

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 329,676. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (161,006) include 48.8% 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.