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Yakima, WA MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

27,191 11,574 378 41,339 6,144 135,955
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
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 0 -346 -31.1%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 0 +1,091 31.6%
Catholic Church Catholic +1 +17,896 76.3%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +36 8.3%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant -2 -415 -29.5%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 +267 156.1%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant +1 +232 24.6%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant +1 -30 -9.6%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 0 +447 54.1%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant -1 -30 -42.9%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +3 +321 6.4%
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 0 -12 -25.5%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +1 +551 21.5%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +1 -53 -7.2%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 0 n.a. n.a.
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 -135 -13.8%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 -404 -17.8%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant -1 -22 -15.6%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 +18 163.6%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 0 +100 20.0%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +4 +578 65.0%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant +4 +397 79.7%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +1 +50 50.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant -1 -648 -29.3%
Missionary Church, The Evangelical Protestant -1 -34 -21.0%
Netherlands Reformed Congregations Evangelical Protestant 0 +2 1.6%
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant -1 -66 -14.3%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 0 -729 -16.4%
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 -52 -16.0%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +745 278.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +5 -25 -1.1%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 0 -684 -16.5%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 -15 -9.8%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 0 -34 -36.2%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 0 -873 -22.6%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 -135 -18.5%
  Totals: +17 +17,989 +27.6%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 188,823; in 2000 it was 222,581. The total population changed 17.9%. The adherent totals for 1990 (66,372) represent 35.2% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (86,626) include 38.9% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 35 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 35 groups had 65,283 adherents in 1990 and 83,272 adherents in 2000, for a change of 27.6%

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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