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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 % Change
Catholic Church Catholic -1 +21,325 37.5%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant -2 +2,773 59.8%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +1,891 375.9%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +1,196 14.8%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +1,074 34.3%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant +1 +974 62.8%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant +2 +964 1506.3%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 +585 45.5%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -2 +490 30.1%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 0 +427 80.9%
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant +1 +405 540.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 0 +349 244.1%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +3 +109 26.3%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant +1 +108 23.9%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 0 +100 10.0%
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church Orthodox 0 +94 83.2%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant 0 +87 414.3%
Church of God General Conference Evangelical Protestant +1 +85 18.8%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 +53 331.3%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 0 +5 10.4%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 0 -19 -29.7%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 0 -36 -12.0%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -38 -21.0%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 0 -40 -47.6%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 0 -80 -7.5%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology -1 -98 -14.4%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 0 -101 -10.1%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +1 -102 -51.0%
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 -102 -8.0%
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 0 -133 -12.5%
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -2 -200 -22.2%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant -2 -321 -24.3%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 0 -350 -31.8%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 -501 -29.2%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -1 -512 -9.9%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 0 -770 -22.7%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -2 -1,288 -17.9%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -1 -1,407 -8.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 -3,534 -12.4%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 0 n.a. n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
  Totals: -2 +23,462 +15.3%

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 adherent totals for 1990 (161,006) represent 48.8% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (184,174) include 49.6% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 39 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 39 groups had 153,635 adherents in 1990 and 177,097 adherents in 2000, for a change of 15.3%

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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