Tyler, TX MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

77,599	18,355		16,199	1,919	60,634
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
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+204	52.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	-4	+6	0.0%
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+898	48.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	+6	+10,899	206.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	+580	38.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+2	2.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-134	-74.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+1,941	708.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+68	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+2	+646	131.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-50	-9.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+1,486	37.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	+1	+447	35.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+209	107.0%
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+900	n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+3,000	n.a.
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	+131	49.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+194	35.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+53	n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-4	-187	-12.0%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-278	-51.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+41	14.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+291	109.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+17,081	43.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+15	62.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-1	+436	4.0%
	Totals:	+12	+38,879	+52.3%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 128,366; in 2000 it was 174,706. The total population changed 15.5%. The adherent totals for 1980 (74,371) represent 57.9% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (114,072) include 65.3% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 26 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 26 groups had 74,337 adherents in 1980 and 113,216 adherents in 2000, for a change of 52.3%

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.

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