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	% Change
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+11	+6,884	17.0%
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+245	n.a.
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+168	1292.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	+2	+4,014	40.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+105	n.a.
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+52	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+2	+387	53.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	+1	+111	n.a.
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+37	n.a.
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+791	103.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+33	n.a.
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+51	26.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	-1,245	-22.0%
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+153	88.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-142	-22.0%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	0	+71	25.0%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	+224	622.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-534	-34.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-6	-3.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-399	-38.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-273	-36.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-1	+275	13.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+115	4.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-2	-2,983	-28.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-7	-825	-31.0%
	Totals:	18	7,309	+9.1%

The population of these 2 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 128,348; in 2000 it was 140,518. The total population changed 7.8%. The adherent totals for 1980 (80,613) represent 62.8% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (88,336) include 62.9% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 25 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 25 groups had 80,523 adherents in 1980 and 87,832 adherents in 2000, for a change of 9.1%

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 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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