Bergen County, New Jersey

Religious Traditions, 2010

33,419	6,286	45,613	14,373	430,007	53,728	321,690
Evangelical Protestant	Black Protestant	Mainline Protestant	Orthodox	Catholic	Other	Unclaimed

Congregational adherents include all full members, their children, and others who regularly attend services. The 2010 reports contain incomplete counts of congregations and adherents belonging to the eight largest historically African-American denominations. These denominations are not included in the 2000 reports and are largely missing from the 1990 and 1980 reports.
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Reports

Religious Bodies	Tradition	Family	Congregations	Adherents	Adherence Rate^†
African Methodist Episcopal Church	Black Protestant	Methodist/Pietist	1	181	0.2
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Black Protestant	Methodist/Pietist	6	1,091	1.2
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	Baptist	21	3,191	3.5
Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, The	Orthodox	Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox)	1	450	0.5
Armenian Apostolic Church of America (Catholicosate of Cilicia)	Orthodox	Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox)	1	3,000	3.3
Armenian Church of North America (Catholicosate of Etchmiadzin)	Orthodox	Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox)	2	1,240	1.4
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	28	4,124	4.6
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	1	63	0.1
Bahá'í	Other	Other Groups	2	232	0.3
Buddhism, Mahayana	Other	Other Groups	6	1,114	1.2
Buddhism, Vajrayana	Other	Other Groups	1	25	0.0
Calvary Chapel Fellowship Churches	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	1	---	---
Catholic Church	Catholic	Catholicism	79	430,007	475.1
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	Holiness	15	1,529	1.7
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	Ind. Fundamentalist	4	---	---
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	Baptist	1	0	---
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	6	1,819	2.0
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other	Christian Science	3	---	---
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	Holiness	1	60	0.1
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	6	274	0.3
Church of God in Christ	Black Protestant	Pentecostal	3	72	0.1
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	2	154	0.2
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other	Latter-day Saints	4	1,430	1.6
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America	Evangelical Protestant	Lutheran	2	271	0.3
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	Holiness	7	1,041	1.2
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	Baptist	3	195	0.2
Community of Christ	Other	Latter-day Saints	1	161	0.2
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	Baptist	2	---	---
Conservative Judaism	Other	Judaism	13	10,700	11.8
Coptic Orthodox Church	Orthodox	Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox)	1	650	0.7
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	Episcopalianism/Anglicanism	34	8,128	9.0
Ethiopian Orthodox	Orthodox	Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox)	1	---	---
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	Methodist/Pietist	1	532	0.6
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	Methodist/Pietist	6	841	0.9
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	Lutheran	28	6,360	7.0
Friends General Conference and Friends United Meeting, dually aligned meetings*	Mainline Protestant	European Free-Church	1	83	0.1
General Association of Regular Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	Baptist	3	---	---
Grace Gospel Fellowship	Evangelical Protestant	Ind. Fundamentalist	1	---	---
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox)	4	4,850	5.4
Hindu, Indian-American Hindu Temple Assoc.	Other	Other Groups	4	1,800	2.0
Hindu, Post Renaissance	Other	Other Groups	5	80	0.1
Hindu, Renaissance	Other	Other Groups	1	12	0.0
Hindu, Traditional Temples	Other	Other Groups	3	5,150	5.7
Hungarian Reformed Churches (Additional)	Mainline Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	1	---	---
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	Ind. Fundamentalist	3	---	---
International Council of Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	1	---	---
Jehovah's Witnesses	Other	Adventist	10	---	---
Korean Presbyterian Church Abroad	Evangelical Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	14	---	---
Korean Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	17	---	---
Korean-American Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	8	---	---
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	Lutheran	12	3,605	4.0
Malankara Archdiocese of the Syrian Orthodox Church in North America	Orthodox	Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox)	1	144	0.2
Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church	Orthodox	Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox)	2	360	0.4
Muslim Estimate	Other	Other Groups	7	4,799	5.3
National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.	Black Protestant	Baptist	6	4,942	5.5
New Apostolic Church of North America, National Organization of the	Other	Other Groups	1	---	---
Non-denominational	Evangelical Protestant	----	58	14,717	16.3
Orthodox Church in America	Orthodox	Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox)	2	219	0.2
Orthodox Judaism	Other	Judaism	44	18,500	20.4
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	1	81	0.1
Patriarchal Parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church in the USA	Orthodox	Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox)	1	800	0.9
Pentecostal Fire-Baptized Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	1	---	---
Polish National Catholic Church	Catholic	Catholicism	1	---	---
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	42	11,269	12.5
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	3	309	0.3
Reconstructionist Judaism	Other	Judaism	1	146	0.2
Reform Judaism	Other	Judaism	9	8,775	9.7
Reformed Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	Baptist	2	---	---
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	37	6,989	7.7
Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	1	34	0.0
Salvation Army	Evangelical Protestant	Holiness	2	299	0.3
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	Adventist	6	1,305	1.4
Sikh	Other	Other Groups	1	---	---
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	Baptist	14	1,244	1.4
Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch	Orthodox	Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox)	4	2,660	2.9
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other	Liberal	3	722	0.8
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	10	1,465	1.6
United Holy Church of America, Inc.	Black Protestant	Pentecostal	1	---	---
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	Methodist/Pietist	35	8,128	9.0
Unity Churches, Association of	Other	Other Groups	1	---	---
Vineyard USA	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	2	922	1.0
Zoroastrian	Other	Other Groups	0	82	0.1
		Totals:	681	583,426

The population of Bergen County, New Jersey was 905,116 in 2010; in 2000 it was 884,118. The total population changed 2.4%. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (583,426) included 64.5% of the total population in 2010.

^* In an effort to better match the ASARB standards for adherents, a few religious bodies changed the way their adherents were reported in 2010, including the Catholic Church, Amish groups, Friends groups, Jewish groups, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Non-denominational Christian Churches, and the United Methodist Church. This change does not affect any of the data in the newly released 2010 U.S. Religion Census: Religious Congregations & Membership Study. In fact, the data for these groups are now more comparable to that of other bodies than it was in previous decadal reports.

However, the change in methodology can distort assessments on growth or decline between 2000 and 2010 for each of these groups. County-level 2000 data using the new methodology are not readily available. ASARB staff has adjusted some 2000 county-level adherent statistics to allow for a more accurate picture on growth or decline. The revised maps and charts are now available on-line at www.usreligioncensus.org for those who are interested in these trends.

Source

2010 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and include statistics for 236 religious groups, providing information on the number of their congregations and adherents within each state and county in the United States. Clifford Grammich, Kirk Hadaway, Richard Houseal, Dale E. Jones, Alexei Krindatch, Richie Stanley and Richard H. Taylor supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in 2010 U.S. Religion Census: Religious Congregations & Membership Study, published by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). [More information on the data collection]

^†The adherence rate provides the number of adherents of a particular group per 1,000 population. For example, in 2010 the Episcopal Church had an adherence rate of 7.6 in Autauga County, Alabama. This means that about 8 out of every 1,000 people in Autauga County were Episcopalian.