Tuscaloosa, AL MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

62,889	15,468		3,550	1,898	81,070
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	+1,424	164.1%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+253	159.1%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+91	118.2%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+550	64.7%
Catholic Church	Catholic	-1	+1,360	62.1%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+355	51.8%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	+455	28.4%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+16	+6,877	15.9%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	+160	7.9%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-4	+601	5.9%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+5	5.1%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-5	+111	4.7%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	+14	3.3%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	0	+2	2.3%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	0	0.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-4	-0.9%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	-25	-3.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-44	-4.3%
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-31	-11.6%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-102	-22.5%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-56	-25.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-559	-27.6%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	-4	-790	-40.9%
	Totals:	+5	+10,647	+14.7%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 150,522; in 2000 it was 164,875. The total population changed 9.5%. The adherent totals for 1990 (95,709) represent 63.6% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (83,805) include 50.8% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 23 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 23 groups had 72,377 adherents in 1990 and 83,024 adherents in 2000, for a change of 14.7%

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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