Youngstown-Warren, OH MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

51,719	82,862	7,870	165,490	5,915	280,890
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^†
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	86	31,494	52.4
Catholic Church	Catholic	79	177,283	295.0
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	61	19,530	32.5
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	40	17,515	29.2
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	32	10,366	17.3
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	28	7,462	12.4
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	26	4,989	8.3
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	26	11,093	18.5
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	25	5,824	9.7
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	17	1,999	3.3
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	16	5,248	8.7
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	15	7,250	12.1
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	12	2,196	3.7
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	11	1,608	2.7
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	10	2,996	5.0
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	9	985	1.6
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	8	3,960	6.6
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	8	642	1.1
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,014	1.7
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,804	3.0
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	6	587	1.0
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	6	3,750	6.2
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	5	750	1.3
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	5	536	0.9
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	956	1.6
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	4	1,140	1.9
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	510	0.9
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,668	2.8
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	4	n.a.	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	4	n.a.	n.a.
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection	Evangelical Protestant	4	145	0.2
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,361	2.3
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	4	206	0.3
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	3	n.a.	n.a.
Evangelical Congregational Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	659	1.1
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	3	n.a.	n.a.
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church	Orthodox	2	284	0.5
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	2	248	0.4
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	2	90	0.2
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	2	433	0.7
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	2	398	0.7
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	200	0.3
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	7	0.0
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	1	101	0.2
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean)	Evangelical Protestant	1	36	0.1
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite	Evangelical Protestant	1	108	0.2
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	65	0.1
Church of the United Brethren in Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	112	0.2
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	149	0.3
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	254	0.4
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	435	0.7
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	300	0.5
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	18,796	31.3
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	614	349,542

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 600,895. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (349,542) include 58.2% 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.