Burlington County, New Jersey

Religious Traditions, 2010

23,751	7,303	29,271	620	111,334	13,995	262,460
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^†
Catholic Church	Catholic	Catholicism	22	111,334	248.1
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	Methodist/Pietist	37	9,806	21.9
Non-denominational	Evangelical Protestant	----	39	9,153	20.4
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	18	7,979	17.8
Muslim Estimate	Other	Other Groups	6	7,770	17.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	Lutheran	10	6,149	13.7
National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.	Black Protestant	Baptist	7	4,670	10.4
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	17	4,571	10.2
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	Episcopalianism/Anglicanism	17	4,267	9.5
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other	Latter-day Saints	5	2,953	6.6
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	Baptist	17	2,880	6.4
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	Holiness	3	2,587	5.8
African Methodist Episcopal Church	Black Protestant	Methodist/Pietist	13	2,206	4.9
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	Baptist	7	1,403	3.1
Reform Judaism	Other	Judaism	1	1,369	3.1
Friends General Conference *	Mainline Protestant	European Free-Church	11	1,019	2.3
Conservative Judaism	Other	Judaism	2	918	2.0
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	Lutheran	3	625	1.4
Coptic Orthodox Church	Orthodox	Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox)	1	500	1.1
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	Adventist	5	494	1.1
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	Methodist/Pietist	2	391	0.9
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Black Protestant	Methodist/Pietist	2	364	0.8
Hindu, Indian-American Hindu Temple Assoc.	Other	Other Groups	1	350	0.8
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	Baptist	2	320	0.7
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	4	299	0.7
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	3	267	0.6
Reconstructionist Judaism	Other	Judaism	1	240	0.5
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	2	188	0.4
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America	Evangelical Protestant	Lutheran	1	179	0.4
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	Holiness	2	142	0.3
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	Holiness	1	131	0.3
Orthodox Church in America	Orthodox	Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox)	1	120	0.3
Bahá'í	Other	Other Groups	0	106	0.2
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	Methodist/Pietist	1	100	0.2
Hindu, Post Renaissance	Other	Other Groups	2	75	0.2
Buddhism, Vajrayana	Other	Other Groups	1	72	0.2
Christian Methodist Episcopal Church	Black Protestant	Methodist/Pietist	1	63	0.1
Orthodox Judaism	Other	Judaism	1	60	0.1
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other	Liberal	1	55	0.1
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	1	51	0.1
Zoroastrian	Other	Other Groups	0	27	0.1
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	1	21	0.0
American Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	1	---	---
Anglican Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	Episcopalianism/Anglicanism	1	---	---
Calvary Chapel Fellowship Churches	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	2	---	---
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	Baptist	3	0	---
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other	Christian Science	1	---	---
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	Holiness	1	0	---
Church of God in Christ	Black Protestant	Pentecostal	2	0	---
Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith, Inc.	Black Protestant	Pentecostal	2	---	---
Elim Fellowship	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	2	---	---
Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship	Black Protestant	Baptist	3	---	---
General Association of Regular Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	Baptist	5	---	---
Hungarian Reformed Churches (Additional)	Mainline Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	1	---	---
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	Ind. Fundamentalist	1	---	---
International Council of Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	1	---	---
International Fellowship of Christian Assemblies	Evangelical Protestant	----	1	---	---
Jehovah's Witnesses	Other	Adventist	6	---	---
Korean Presbyterian Church Abroad	Evangelical Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	1	---	---
Korean Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	1	---	---
New Apostolic Church of North America, National Organization of the	Other	Other Groups	1	---	---
Pentecostal Fire-Baptized Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	1	---	---
Reformed Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	Baptist	1	---	---
Sikh	Other	Other Groups	2	---	---
United Holy Church of America, Inc.	Black Protestant	Pentecostal	2	---	---
United Pentecostal Church International	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	3	---	---
Unity Churches, Association of	Other	Other Groups	1	---	---
		Totals:	318	186,274

The population of Burlington County, New Jersey was 448,734 in 2010; in 2000 it was 423,394. The total population changed 6.0%. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (186,274) included 41.5% 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.