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West Palm Beach-Boca Raton, FL MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

103,789 51,270 3,666 300,456 173,363 498,640
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 4 402 0.7
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 1 284 0.5
Apostolic Lutheran Church of America Evangelical Protestant 1 348 0.6
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 7 1,818 3.2
Catholic Church Catholic 26 127,750 221.5
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 6 908 1.6
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 4 625 1.1
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 5 1,378 2.4
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 4 288 0.5
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 2 587 1.0
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 4 1,956 3.4
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 22 2,273 3.9
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 5 1,577 2.7
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 7 998 1.7
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 14 1,864 3.2
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 23 11,291 19.6
Evangelical Covenant Church, The Evangelical Protestant 3 388 0.7
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 10 4,919 8.5
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 3 432 0.8
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 37 0.1
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 2 360 0.6
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 6 4,836 8.4
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 7 4,651 8.1
Moravian Church in America--Southern Province Mainline Protestant 1 111 0.2
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant 2 110 0.2
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 1 122 0.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 14 7,816 13.6
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 6 1,765 3.1
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 1 238 0.4
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 2 692 1.2
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 8 1,407 2.4
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 28 26,914 46.7
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 2 349 0.6
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 7 2,668 4.6
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 25 17,709 30.7
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant n.a. 25 0.0
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 59 0.1
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 265 229,955  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 576,863. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (229,955) include 39.9% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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.