Springfield, IL MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

44,074	29,638	171	38,197	2,568	86,789
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	0	+7,143	89.7%
Catholic Church	Catholic	-1	+1,526	4.2%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+515	9.4%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	+434	27.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-1	+353	5.6%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	+319	30.5%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+306	3.6%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+273	77.6%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+1	+253	41.5%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+198	111.9%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+180	545.5%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+108	47.6%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	+90	9.0%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	0	+59	655.6%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+38	8.4%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+37	22.7%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+24	29.6%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	0	+20	19.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	-1	0	0.0%
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-9	-50.0%
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	-21	-55.3%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	0	-41	-14.1%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-116	-10.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-144	-32.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-364	-9.6%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	-500	-36.5%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	-1,033	-7.8%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	-1,273	-12.7%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	0	-1,474	-33.3%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
	Totals:	0	+6,901	+6.5%

The population of these 2 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 189,550; in 2000 it was 201,437. The total population changed 6.3%. The adherent totals for 1990 (111,094) represent 58.6% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (114,648) include 56.9% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 29 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 29 groups had 105,772 adherents in 1990 and 112,673 adherents in 2000, for a change of 6.5%

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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