New Hampshire

Denominational Groups, 2000

30,131	95,586	7,228	431,259	24,818	646,764
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	170	297,062	267.8
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	139	36,989	33.4
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	101	19,328	17.4
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	93	18,663	16.8
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	50	16,301	14.7
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	11	6,680	6.0
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	35	4,698	4.2
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	16	4,635	4.2
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	23	4,189	3.8
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	13	3,211	2.9
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	10	2,785	2.5
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	17	2,579	2.3
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	9	2,157	1.9
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,908	1.7
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	15	1,788	1.6
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,675	1.5
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	1,600	1.4
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	1,438	1.3
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	15	1,247	1.1
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	19	1,210	1.1
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	14	1,120	1.0
Apostolic Lutheran Church of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	1,030	0.9
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	9	974	0.9
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	8	763	0.7
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	4	630	0.6
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	8	594	0.5
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	10	586	0.5
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	4	454	0.4
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	5	420	0.4
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	3	396	0.4
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	340	0.3
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	3	175	0.2
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	144	0.1
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	121	0.1
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	3	105	0.1
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	87	0.1
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	1	55	0.1
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	2	51	0.1
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	50	0.1
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	46	0.0
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	33	0.0
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	30	0.0
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses	Orthodox	0	27	0.0
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	18	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	2	n.a.	n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	28	n.a.	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	12	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	896	438,374

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 1,109,252. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (438,374) include 39.5% 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.