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Denominational Groups, 2000

45,155 16,709 903 138,485 13,832 348,514
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
Catholic Church Catholic -1 +41,750 43.2%
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant +1 +695 18.6%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +2 +684 7.1%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant +1 +480 19.5%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant -1 +434 33.8%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +2 +425 6.4%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +272 143.2%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +217 131.5%
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 +201 16.9%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 0 +92 40.7%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +91 2.5%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 +77 5.3%
Churches of God, General Conference Evangelical Protestant 0 +68 n.a.
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 0 +26 22.6%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 +25 147.1%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -1 +24 6.5%
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant 0 +15 29.4%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 0 +7 5.4%
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 0 -6 -5.3%
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of Evangelical Protestant 0 -6 -1.6%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 -16 -0.7%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant -1 -25 -18.5%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant +1 -34 -11.4%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 0 -57 -7.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant -1 -61 -3.5%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant +1 -69 -22.3%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 -76 -38.2%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 -84 -25.2%
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio) Evangelical Protestant -1 -180 -63.4%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +3 -180 -11.3%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant +1 -202 -7.7%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant +1 -239 -48.5%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 0 -269 -4.9%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +2 -325 -20.1%
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant -1 -349 -26.2%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 0 -385 -36.2%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology -1 -750 -46.9%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant -1 -810 -21.8%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +1 -946 -18.9%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +8 -1,198 -13.6%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant +1 n.a. n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
  Totals: +19 +39,316 +23.4%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 480,628; in 2000 it was 563,598. The total population changed 17.3%. The adherent totals for 1990 (176,314) represent 36.7% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (215,084) include 38.2% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 40 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 40 groups had 168,213 adherents in 1990 and 207,529 adherents in 2000, for a change of 23.4%

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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