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Wichita Falls, TX MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

59,457 13,119 297 14,003 1,460 52,182
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 9 15,928 122.2
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 16 3,258 25.0
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The Evangelical Protestant 1 41 0.3
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 4,660 35.8
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 253 1.9
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 1 0 0.0
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 6 1,449 11.1
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 1 24 0.2
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 3 478 3.7
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 20 4,754 36.5
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 400 3.1
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 2 1,425 10.9
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 1 59 0.5
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 1 66 0.5
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 5 1,310 10.1
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant 2 196 1.5
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant 10 769 5.9
Primitive Baptists Associations Evangelical Protestant 1 296 2.3
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 141 1.1
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada Evangelical Protestant 1 32 0.3
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 3 233 1.8
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 46 46,123 353.8
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 7 2,114 16.2
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 4 1,092 8.4
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 2 575 4.4
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 6 2,585 19.8
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 19 9,587 73.6
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 2 879 6.7
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 2 260 2.0
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 176 98,987  
The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 130,351. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (98,987) include 75.9% 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.