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^†
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	64	0.3
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	12	3,259	15.3
Bahá'í	Other Theology	1	68	0.3
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	484	2.3
Catholic Church	Catholic	13	22,880	107.2
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	174	0.8
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	6	1,916	9.0
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	1	20	0.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	2	1,093	5.1
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	3	477	2.2
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	28	4,272	20.0
Community of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	57	0.3
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	3	1,946	9.1
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	450	2.1
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	5	1,989	9.3
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	165	0.8
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	500	2.3
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	425	2.0
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	2	300	1.4
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	5	2,630	12.3
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	30	0.1
Muslim Estimate	Other Theology	1	300	1.4
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	53	0.3
National Primitive Baptist Convention, USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	38	0.2
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	236	1.1
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	5	943	4.4
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	4	1,210	5.7
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	0	0.0
Primitive Baptist Churches--Old Line	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	279	1.3
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	223	1.0
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	92	64,143	300.4
Southwide Baptist Fellowship	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	70	0.3
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	5	950	4.5
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	42	17,507	82.0
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	57	0.3
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	252	129,208
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		160,705

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 189,123; in 2000 it was 213,517. The total population changed 12.9%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (129,208) include 60.5% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (160,705) include 75.3% of the population.

Source

^*The “Unadjusted Totals” come from the 1990 and 2000 data collected by representatives of the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). While quite comprehensive, this data excludes most of the historically African-American denominations and some other major groups. As a result, these numbers will be an underestimate of the total adherence rate, particularly in areas with a large African-American population. The 2000 data included 149 religious groups and the final results are published in Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Copyright © 2002, All rights reserved. The 1990 data included 132 groups and the final results are published in Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990 Copyright © 1990, All rights reserved. Published by Glenmary Research Center, 1312 Fifth Ave., North, Nashville, TN 37208. www.glenmary.org/grc [More information on the data collection]

^**The “Adjusted Totals” include all adherents in the denominations counted by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and estimates adherent totals for the historically African-American denominations and other religious groups not listed in the ASARB totals. An article by Roger Finke and Christopher P. Scheitle (2005) reviews how these estimates were computed.

^†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.

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