Saginaw-Bay City-Midland, MI MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

75,210	35,788	660	93,855	2,155	195,402
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	66	109,042	273.1
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	30	33,268	83.3
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	41	14,640	36.7
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	14,027	35.1
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	18	10,375	26.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	15	9,895	24.8
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	15	8,376	21.0
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	18	4,521	11.3
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	10	3,930	9.8
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	10	3,725	9.3
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	11	3,669	9.2
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	7	2,445	6.1
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	11	1,750	4.4
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,326	3.3
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,223	3.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	4	1,216	3.1
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,161	2.9
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	4	680	1.7
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	6	647	1.6
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	7	629	1.6
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	600	1.5
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	3	576	1.4
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	553	1.4
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	5	532	1.3
Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	2	524	1.3
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	3	495	1.2
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	350	0.9
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	338	0.9
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	295	0.7
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	285	0.7
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	2	275	0.7
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	274	0.7
Church of the Lutheran Confession	Evangelical Protestant	1	268	0.7
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	244	0.6
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	4	210	0.5
Church of the United Brethren in Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	186	0.5
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	181	0.5
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	2	175	0.4
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	173	0.4
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	166	0.4
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	140	0.4
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	128	0.3
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	97	0.2
Evangelical Mennonite Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	79	0.2
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	2	78	0.2
The Protestant Conference (Lutheran)	Evangelical Protestant	1	65	0.2
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	47	0.1
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses	Orthodox	0	39	0.1
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	31	0.1
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	1	0	0.0
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	3	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	355	233,949

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 399,320. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (233,949) include 58.6% 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.