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Waco, TX MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

78,757 25,575 165 22,880 1,831 84,309
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 Adherence Rate
Catholic Church Catholic 11 17,556 92.8
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 12 3,295 17.4
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 2 372 2.0
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 12,207 64.6
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 1 79 0.4
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 50 0.3
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 1 40 0.2
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 4 576 3.1
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 28 4,406 23.3
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 1 425 2.3
Evangelical Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 1 66 0.4
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 650 3.4
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 3 1,525 8.1
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 1 91 0.5
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 5 2,668 14.1
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant 1 76 0.4
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant 2 272 1.4
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant 5 296 1.6
Primitive Baptists Associations Evangelical Protestant 1 53 0.3
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 3 370 2.0
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 79 65,620 347.0
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 5 1,461 7.7
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 3 2,553 13.5
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 5 2,315 12.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 6 1,595 8.4
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 5 1,097 5.8
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 42 18,142 95.9
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 1 n.a. n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 3 892 4.7
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 2 450 2.4
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 66 0.4
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 237 139,264  
The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 189,123. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (139,264) include 73.6% of the total population in 1990.

Source

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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The adherence rate provides the number of adherents of a particular group per 1,000 population. For example, in 2000 the Episcopal Church had an adherence rate of approximately 8 (8.1) in Autauga County, Alabama. This means that 8 out of every 1,000 people in Autauga county are Episcopalian.