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	% Change
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	-36	-1.1%
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+112	30.1%
Catholic Church	Catholic	+2	+5,324	30.3%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+95	120.3%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	+1	+455	31.1%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-20	-50.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	-1	+201	22.5%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-99	-17.2%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	-134	-3.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-607	-23.8%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+25	5.9%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-326	-14.1%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	0	-150	-23.1%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-1,100	-72.1%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	-150	-33.3%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-38	-1.4%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	0	-23	-30.3%
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	-36	-13.2%
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	+647	218.6%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-2	-385	-24.1%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-147	-39.7%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+13	-1,477	-2.3%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+4	6.1%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	-147	-13.4%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	-635	-3.5%
	Totals:	+9	+1,353	+1.1%

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 adherent totals for 1990 (139,264) represent 73.6% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (129,208) include 60.5% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 25 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 25 groups had 126,797 adherents in 1990 and 128,150 adherents in 2000, for a change of 1.1%

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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