Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH, Metropolitan Statistical Area

Religious Traditions, 2010

146,838	7,439	205,324	48,378	2,021,038	155,172	1,968,213
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^†
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	----	5	4,900	1.1
International Fellowship of Christian Assemblies	Evangelical Protestant	----	---	---	---
Non-denominational	Evangelical Protestant	----	---	---	---
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	Adventist	---	---	---
Jehovah's Witnesses	Other	Adventist	---	---	---
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	Adventist	44	7,852	1.8
Alliance of Baptists	Mainline Protestant	Baptist	---	---	---
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	Baptist	---	---	---
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	Baptist	170	35,776	8.1
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	Baptist	1	49	0.0
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	Baptist	4	500	0.1
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	Baptist	18	1,501	0.3
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	Baptist	33	5,183	1.2
Converge Worldwide/Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	Baptist	17	2,597	0.6
General Association of Regular Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	Baptist	1	70	0.0
International Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	Baptist	1	6,162	1.4
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	Baptist	1	86	0.0
National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.	Black Protestant	Baptist	---	---	---
National Missionary Baptist Convention, Inc.	Black Protestant	Baptist	---	---	---
Reformed Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	Baptist	2	---	---
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	Baptist	56	10,803	2.5
Catholic Church	Catholic	Catholicism	420	2,200,905	501.2
Polish National Catholic Church	Catholic	Catholicism	---	---	---
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other	Christian Science	---	---	---
Albanian Orthodox Diocese of America	Orthodox	Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox)	1	125	0.0
Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, The	Orthodox	Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox)	7	6,632	1.5
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses	Orthodox	Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox)	---	---	---
Armenian Apostolic Church of America (Catholicosate of Cilicia)	Orthodox	Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox)	2	2,520	0.6
Armenian Church of North America (Catholicosate of Etchmiadzin)	Orthodox	Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox)	6	12,070	2.7
Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Diocese of the USA, Canada and Australia	Orthodox	Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox)	---	---	---
Coptic Orthodox Church	Orthodox	Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox)	---	---	---
Eritrean Orthodox	Orthodox	Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox)	---	---	---
Ethiopian Orthodox	Orthodox	Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox)	---	---	---
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox)	27	33,330	7.6
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Vasiloupulis	Orthodox	Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox)	3	650	0.1
Holy Orthodox Church in North America	Orthodox	Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox)	6	784	0.2
Malankara Archdiocese of the Syrian Orthodox Church in North America	Orthodox	Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox)	---	---	---
Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church	Orthodox	Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox)	1	175	0.0
Orthodox Church in America	Orthodox	Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox)	5	966	0.2
Orthodox Church in America: Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese	Orthodox	Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox)	3	2,950	0.7
Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese in Americas	Orthodox	Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox)	1	612	0.1
Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia	Orthodox	Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox)	3	---	---
Serbian Orthodox Church in North America	Orthodox	Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox)	---	---	---
Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch	Orthodox	Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox)	1	300	0.1
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA	Orthodox	Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox)	1	900	0.2
Anglican Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	Episcopalianism/Anglicanism	---	---	---
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	Episcopalianism/Anglicanism	164	68,634	15.6
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	European Free-Church	17	902	0.2
Friends General Conference and Friends United Meeting, dually aligned meetings*	Mainline Protestant	European Free-Church	---	---	---
Grace Brethren Churches, Fellowship of	Mainline Protestant	European Free-Church	---	---	---
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	European Free-Church	5	367	0.1
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	Holiness	15	2,581	0.6
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	Holiness	3	4,015	0.9
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	Holiness	46	8,000	1.8
Churches of Christ in Christian Union	Evangelical Protestant	Holiness	---	---	---
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	Holiness	11	634	0.1
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	Holiness	---	---	---
Salvation Army	Evangelical Protestant	Holiness	26	5,916	1.3
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	Holiness	1	64	0.0
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	Ind. Fundamentalist	---	---	---
Conservative Judaism	Other	Judaism	---	---	---
Jewish	Other	Judaism	153	224,000	51.0
Orthodox Judaism	Other	Judaism	---	---	---
Reconstructionist Judaism	Other	Judaism	---	---	---
Reform Judaism	Other	Judaism	---	---	---
Union of Messianic Jewish Congregations	Other	Judaism	---	---	---
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other	Latter-day Saints	35	12,514	2.8
Community of Christ	Other	Latter-day Saints	3	384	0.1
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other	Liberal	92	19,900	4.5
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	Lutheran	40	13,654	3.1
Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	Lutheran	---	---	---
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	Lutheran	12	4,066	0.9
Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ	Evangelical Protestant	Lutheran	---	---	---
African Methodist Episcopal Church	Black Protestant	Methodist/Pietist	---	---	---
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Black Protestant	Methodist/Pietist	---	---	---
Christian Methodist Episcopal Church	Black Protestant	Methodist/Pietist	---	---	---
Church of the United Brethren in Christ	Evangelical Protestant	Methodist/Pietist	---	---	---
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	Methodist/Pietist	8	1,225	0.3
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	Methodist/Pietist	10	1,262	0.3
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA	Evangelical Protestant	Methodist/Pietist	4	242	0.1
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	Methodist/Pietist	147	43,966	10.0
Bahá'í	Other	Other Groups	20	1,736	0.4
Buddhists	Other	Other Groups	43	---	---
Hindus	Other	Other Groups	19	---	---
Jain	Other	Other Groups	1	---	---
Metropolitan Community Churches, Universal Fellowship of	Mainline Protestant	Other Groups	1	57	0.0
Muslim Estimate	Other	Other Groups	20	35,888	8.2
New Apostolic Church of North America, National Organization of the	Other	Other Groups	---	---	---
Sikh	Other	Other Groups	2	---	---
Tao	Other	Other Groups	1	---	---
Unity Churches, Association of	Other	Other Groups	---	---	---
Zoroastrian	Other	Other Groups	1	---	---
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	78	14,634	3.3
Calvary Chapel Fellowship Churches	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	3	---	---
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	29	2,878	0.7
Church of God in Christ	Black Protestant	Pentecostal	---	---	---
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	7	621	0.1
Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith, Inc.	Black Protestant	Pentecostal	---	---	---
Elim Fellowship	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	---	---	---
Foursquare Gospel, International Church of the	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	16	2,409	0.5
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	5	3,595	0.8
International Pentecostal Church of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	1	10	0.0
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	---	---	---
Pentecostal Fire-Baptized Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	---	---	---
United Holy Church of America, Inc.	Black Protestant	Pentecostal	---	---	---
United Pentecostal Church International	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	---	---	---
United Pentecostal Council of the Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	---	---	---
Vineyard USA	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	6	2,155	0.5
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	3	217	0.0
Churches of God, General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	1	65	0.0
Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches	Evangelical Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	---	---	---
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	9	2,408	0.5
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	25	5,552	1.3
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	1	20	0.0
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	---	---	---
International Council of Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	4	1,270	0.3
Korean Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	---	---	---
Korean-American Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	---	---	---
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	16	3,184	0.7
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	3	510	0.1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	25	5,092	1.2
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	7	626	0.1
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	1	104	0.0
Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	---	---	---
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	238	76,996	17.5
National Spiritualist Association of Churches	Other	Spiritualist	---	---	---
Swedenborgian Church	Other	Spiritualist	---	---	---
		Totals:	2,218	2,910,751

The population of the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH, Metropolitan Statistical Area was 4,391,344 in 2000; in 1990 it was 4,133,895. The total population changed 6.2%. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (2,910,751) included 66.3% of the total population in 2000.

Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH, Metropolitan Statistical Area includes the following 7 counties: Essex County, Massachusetts, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, Strafford County, New Hampshire, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.

^* 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.