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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 % Change
Catholic Church Catholic +14 +174,888 111.4%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +20 +15,606 220.3%
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 0 -15 -14.9%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +3 +180 268.7%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -2 +6,318 222.0%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant +2 +314 570.9%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant +2 -15 -5.4%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +1 +543 130.2%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +1 +55 45.8%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +4 +659 35.8%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 +140 6.4%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant +4 n.a. n.a.
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +434 83.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant +1 -35 -43.8%
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -1 -1,210 -52.6%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -2 +850 24.3%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +10 +494 17.5%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant +2 +64 47.8%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant +4 +1,435 23.1%
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant -2 -210 -48.8%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +1 +200 n.a.
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +3 +734 145.3%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +1 -54 -1.9%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +37 +12,344 44.3%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +346 206.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant +3 +889 119.3%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 0 +1,165 17.4%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant -1 +14 2.2%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant +1 -55 -1.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant +4 +2,466 30.1%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant +1 +31 63.3%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant +1 +1,561 27.7%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 0 -15 -2.1%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant +2 +1,923 22.5%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox +1 n.a. n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +84 +27,892 31.3%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +17 +56,700 277.9%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 +78 37.0%
  Totals: +219 +306,714 +83.9%

The population of these 17 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 1,201,833; in 2000 it was 1,998,257. The total population changed 66.3%. The adherent totals for 1990 (386,312) represent 32.1% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (684,489) include 34.3% of the 2000 population. There is sufficient data for 36 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 36 groups had 365,742 adherents in 1990 and 672,456 adherents in 2000, for a change of 83.9%

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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