Yuma, AZ MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

12,994	3,230		37,744	3,838	102,220
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
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+88	17.0%
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+82	82.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+1,710	n.a.
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+90	n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+65	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+350	n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-81	-45.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+249	237.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+1	+179	46.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+242	200.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-434	-11.0%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+1	+125	n.a.
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	+1,944	238.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+21,744	136.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	-455	-34.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	-19	-61.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+212	61.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	+506	17.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	-361	-41.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+23	31.0%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	0	-21	-30.0%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+39	100.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	-1	+688	124.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-207	-19.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-144	-21.0%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-1,985	-77.0%
	Totals:	+15	+24,629	+74.8%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 77,997; in 2000 it was 160,026. The total population changed 49.7%. The adherent totals for 1980 (32,988) represent 42.3% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (57,806) include 36.1% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 26 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 26 groups had 32,931 adherents in 1980 and 57,560 adherents in 2000, for a change of 74.8%

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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