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^†
Catholic Church	Catholic	20	78,151	210.5
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	126	0.3
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	78	0.2
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	12	7,411	20.0
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	3	999	2.7
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	6	2,116	5.7
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	4	492	1.3
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	3	265	0.7
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	6	538	1.5
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	1	53	0.1
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	4	931	2.5
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	8	902	2.4
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	11	1,871	5.0
Community of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	97	0.3
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	150	0.4
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	480	1.3
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	9	2,558	6.9
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	9	4,205	11.3
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	45	0.1
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	700	1.9
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	750	2.0
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	3	98	0.3
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	44	0.1
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	12	9,282	25.0
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	108	0.3
New Testament Association of Independent Baptist Churches and other Fundamental Baptist Associations/Fellowships	Evangelical Protestant	8	2,276	6.1
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	125	0.3
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	259	0.7
Reformed Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	2,394	6.5
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	5	524	1.4
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	12	2,616	7.1
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	143	0.4
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	4	560	1.5
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	5	2,524	6.8
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	4	955	2.6
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	6	1,216	3.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	34	24,894	67.1
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	69	0.2
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	3	1,028	2.8
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	15	5,891	15.9
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	5	1,172	3.2
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	10	4,656	12.5
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	40	16,145	43.5
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church	Orthodox	1	207	0.6
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	546	1.5
Serbian Orthodox Church in the USA	Orthodox	1	80	0.2
Bahá'í	Other Theology	2	173	0.5
Buddhism	Other Theology	2	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	3	980	2.6
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	2	1,100	3.0
Muslim Estimate	Other Theology	1	609	1.6
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	582	1.6
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	297	184,174
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		215,618

The population of these 3 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 329,676; in 2000 it was 371,236. The total population changed 12.6%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (184,174) include 49.6% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (215,618) include 58.1% 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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