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Nevada

Denominational Groups, 2000

107,681 43,340 3,895 331,844 197,729 1,313,768
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 53 156,956 130.6
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 198 89,033 74.1
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 74 27,889 23.2
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 20,454 17.0
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 6 20,400 17.0
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 29 8,529 7.1
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 13 8,197 6.8
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 36 7,085 5.9
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 21 6,698 5.6
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 19 6,219 5.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 18 5,641 4.7
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 33 5,524 4.6
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 5 3,500 2.9
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 15 2,843 2.4
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 9 2,846 2.4
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 17 2,817 2.3
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 3 2,300 1.9
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 26 2,186 1.8
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 15 1,843 1.5
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 4 745 0.6
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 4 703 0.6
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 3 651 0.5
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 4 523 0.4
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 4 505 0.4
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant 6 430 0.4
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 8 417 0.4
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 4 277 0.2
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 2 211 0.2
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 168 0.1
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 1 134 0.1
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 3 120 0.1
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 1 101 0.1
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 2 80 0.1
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses Orthodox 0 72 0.1
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 2 67 0.1
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 1 55 0.1
Church of God (Seventh Day) Evangelical Protestant 1 44 0.0
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 49 0.0
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 1 0 0.0
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 5 n.a. n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America Evangelical Protestant 7 n.a. n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 4 n.a. n.a.
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 4 n.a. n.a.
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 664 386,312  
The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 1,201,833. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (386,312) include 32.1% 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.