Passaic County, New Jersey

Religious Traditions, 2010

20,164	3,610	15,796	5,990	199,315	44,397	211,954
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	2	556	1.1
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Black Protestant	Methodist/Pietist	3	582	1.2
Church of God in Christ	Black Protestant	Pentecostal	1	185	0.4
Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith, Inc.	Black Protestant	Pentecostal	2	---	---
National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.	Black Protestant	Baptist	5	2,287	4.6
United Holy Church of America, Inc.	Black Protestant	Pentecostal	3	---	---
Catholic Church	Catholic	Catholicism	52	199,315	397.7
Polish National Catholic Church	Catholic	Catholicism	4	---	---
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	22	4,263	8.5
Calvary Chapel Fellowship Churches	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	1	---	---
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	Holiness	3	378	0.8
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	10	1,918	3.8
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	Holiness	2	90	0.2
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	8	1,196	2.4
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	Adventist	1	---	---
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	2	373	0.7
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	Holiness	4	429	0.9
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	Baptist	1	---	---
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	Methodist/Pietist	1	83	0.2
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	Holiness	5	1,025	2.0
Grace Gospel Fellowship	Evangelical Protestant	Ind. Fundamentalist	2	---	---
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	Ind. Fundamentalist	1	---	---
Korean Presbyterian Church Abroad	Evangelical Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	1	---	---
Korean Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	1	---	---
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	Lutheran	4	1,047	2.1
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	Holiness	1	65	0.1
Non-denominational	Evangelical Protestant	----	21	6,603	13.2
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	1	109	0.2
Pentecostal Fire-Baptized Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	2	---	---
Salvation Army	Evangelical Protestant	Holiness	2	444	0.9
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	Adventist	7	1,503	3.0
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	Baptist	4	638	1.3
United Pentecostal Church International	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	2	---	---
United Reformed Churches in North America	Evangelical Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	1	---	---
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	Baptist	22	3,652	7.3
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	Episcopalianism/Anglicanism	10	1,887	3.8
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	Lutheran	3	1,031	2.1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	12	2,051	4.1
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	18	2,531	5.0
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	2	538	1.1
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	Methodist/Pietist	16	4,106	8.2
Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, The	Orthodox	Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox)	1	1,500	3.0
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox)	1	1,500	3.0
Macedonian Orthodox Church: American Diocese	Orthodox	Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox)	1	300	0.6
Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church	Orthodox	Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox)	1	180	0.4
Orthodox Church in America	Orthodox	Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox)	3	595	1.2
Patriarchal Parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church in the USA	Orthodox	Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox)	2	750	1.5
Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia	Orthodox	Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox)	2	205	0.4
Serbian Orthodox Church in North America	Orthodox	Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox)	1	610	1.2
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA	Orthodox	Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox)	2	350	0.7
Bahá'í	Other	Other Groups	1	119	0.2
Buddhism, Mahayana	Other	Other Groups	1	102	0.2
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other	Christian Science	1	---	---
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other	Latter-day Saints	3	3,012	6.0
Conservative Judaism	Other	Judaism	3	915	1.8
Hindu, Indian-American Hindu Temple Assoc.	Other	Other Groups	2	1,992	4.0
Hindu, Traditional Temples	Other	Other Groups	1	1,200	2.4
Jehovah's Witnesses	Other	Adventist	6	---	---
Muslim Estimate	Other	Other Groups	14	27,915	55.7
New Apostolic Church of North America, National Organization of the	Other	Other Groups	2	---	---
Orthodox Judaism	Other	Judaism	15	8,000	16.0
Reform Judaism	Other	Judaism	1	1,110	2.2
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other	Liberal	1	31	0.1
Zoroastrian	Other	Other Groups	0	1	0.0
		Totals:	330	289,272

The population of Passaic County, New Jersey was 501,226 in 2010; in 2000 it was 489,049. The total population changed 2.5%. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (289,272) included 57.7% 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.