San Angelo, TX MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

36,748	8,849	138	15,601	1,104	41,570
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
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+345	21.9%
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+281	95.3%
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	-116	-0.7%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	+1	+203	17.6%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+182	83.9%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+38	24.5%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+44	183.3%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+1	+260	32.3%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	-1	-0.4%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+4	0.1%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-100	-12.6%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-364	-51.1%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	+1	n.a.	n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+168	154.1%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-274	-27.1%
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	+111	91.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	-247	-10.8%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+63	27.9%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+14	18.9%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+3,463	14.3%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	+1	-54	-1.2%
	Totals:	+8	+4,020	+6.9%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 98,458; in 2000 it was 104,010. The total population changed 5.6%. The adherent totals for 1990 (62,225) represent 63.2% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (62,440) include 60.0% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 20 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 20 groups had 58,007 adherents in 1990 and 62,027 adherents in 2000, for a change of 6.9%

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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