Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, WA CMSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

323,813	227,476	6,164	431,477	151,873	2,413,957
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
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+46	+11,662	14.5%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+34	+5,993	39.2%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+22	+684	2.6%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+13	+9,060	29.5%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+13	+1,190	8.7%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+11	+4,896	54.1%
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+3,239	40.2%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+5,879	53.1%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+17,040	239.8%
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+354	20.3%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	+6	-6,346	-14.3%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+428	51.2%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+4	-236	-2.8%
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+301	52.9%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	+3	-810	-2.9%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	+3	+105	12.9%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+119	177.6%
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+299	1661.1%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	+3	+475	14.0%
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+237	303.8%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+203	11.5%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	+2	n.a.	n.a.
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+2	-178	-0.7%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	+2	+3,097	7.6%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+160	8.9%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+2,406	188.7%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+502	25.9%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+2,368	17.6%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	+1	n.a.	n.a.
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses	Orthodox	0	+114	68.7%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	+16,113	35.9%
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	-3	-16.7%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	0	+45	13.3%
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+194	31.7%
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	0	-130	-39.4%
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+41	120.6%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	0	-201	-38.9%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	0	+11	15.1%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-475	-26.6%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-1	-849	-13.1%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-93	-11.2%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+295	11.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	-1	-2,741	-3.4%
Catholic Church	Catholic	-2	+102,286	31.1%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-146	-77.7%
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	-3	-3,236	-49.2%
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	-3	-373	-69.3%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	-4	-1,385	-5.7%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-5	-1,476	-13.5%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	-7	+333	7.0%
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	-12	+5,865	24.5%
	Totals:	+171	+177,316	+19.4%

The population of these 6 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 2,970,328; in 2000 it was 3,554,760. The total population changed 19.7%. The adherent totals for 1990 (955,621) represent 32.2% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (1,140,803) include 32.1% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 49 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 49 groups had 913,652 adherents in 1990 and 1,090,968 adherents in 2000, for a change of 19.4%

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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