Metro Area Membership Report
 Maps and Reports > Select Metro Area > Metro Area Report
Search Maps & Reports:

Sarasota-Bradenton, FL MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

72,279 54,186 755 100,005 19,963 342,771
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.
[More information on the data sources]

Reports


Religious Bodies Theology Congregations Adherents % Change
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant +1 +92 n.a.
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc. Evangelical Protestant +1 +75 n.a.
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarene) Evangelical Protestant +1 +54 n.a.
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +4 +1,340 87.0%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 0 +398 169.0%
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches Evangelical Protestant 0 +127 265.0%
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio) Evangelical Protestant +1 -572 -68.0%
Brethren In Christ Church Evangelical Protestant +1 -56 -43.0%
Catholic Church Catholic +5 +68,082 213.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +3 +445 186.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 0 -539 -32.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +4 +1,714 173.0%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 0 +221 40.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant +3 -694 -42.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +7 +1,702 226.0%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +1 +49 n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +2 +1,056 148.0%
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant +1 +255 154.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +1 +114 5.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +1 +94 5.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant +5 +1,284 19.0%
Evangelical Covenant Church, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -47 -5.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +302 80.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant -1 +45 1.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant +1 +107 n.a.
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant -1 +110 423.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +1 +507 n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +2 +1,000 n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +4 +3,400 n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +1 +33 n.a.
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant +1 +545 634.0%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +4 +16,073 1126.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant +3 +1,427 66.0%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 0 +22 39.0%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox +2 +248 n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant +1 +70 n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 0 +1,188 10.0%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +3 +1,106 483.0%
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 -557 -40.0%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +2 -67 -6.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +2 +62 7.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +12 +14,920 68.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology +1 +38 8.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant +2 +298 12.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant +4 +1,246 7.0%
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant +1 +268 447.0%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +248 n.a.
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +350 102.0%
  Totals: +89 +118,183 +95.9%

The population of these 2 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 350,693; in 2000 it was 589,959. The total population changed 20.5%. The adherent totals for 1980 (123,608) represent 35.2% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (247,188) include 41.9% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 48 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 48 groups had 123,252 adherents in 1980 and 241,435 adherents in 2000, for a change of 95.9%

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 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

[More information on these data sources]