Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL, Metropolitan Statistical Area

Religious Traditions, 2010

148,424	10,761	31,347	307	45,251	8,630	357,375
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^†
Non-denominational	Evangelical Protestant	----	95	30,343	50.4
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	Adventist	2	---	---
Jehovah's Witnesses	Other	Adventist	12	---	---
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	Adventist	18	2,308	3.8
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	Baptist	9	2,947	4.9
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	Baptist	1	121	0.2
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	Baptist	6	750	1.2
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	Baptist	8	1,815	3.0
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	Baptist	26	3,597	6.0
Converge Worldwide/Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	Baptist	1	90	0.1
General Association of Regular Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	Baptist	7	---	---
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	Baptist	9	980	1.6
National Baptist Convention of America, Inc.	Black Protestant	Baptist	10	4,530	7.5
National Missionary Baptist Convention, Inc.	Black Protestant	Baptist	6	984	1.6
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	Baptist	152	66,149	109.9
Catholic Church	Catholic	Catholicism	13	45,251	75.2
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other	Christian Science	3	---	---
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese	Orthodox	Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox)	1	67	0.1
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox)	1	200	0.3
Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia	Orthodox	Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox)	1	40	0.1
Anglican Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	Episcopalianism/Anglicanism	1	---	---
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	Episcopalianism/Anglicanism	12	3,473	5.8
Friends General Conference *	Mainline Protestant	European Free-Church	1	0	---
Grace Brethren Churches, Fellowship of	Mainline Protestant	European Free-Church	1	---	---
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	European Free-Church	1	44	0.1
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	Holiness	4	631	1.0
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	Holiness	10	1,989	3.3
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	Holiness	14	4,819	8.0
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	Holiness	3	326	0.5
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	Holiness	3	301	0.5
Salvation Army	Evangelical Protestant	Holiness	2	492	0.8
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	Holiness	1	122	0.2
Conservative Judaism	Other	Judaism	1	270	0.4
Reform Judaism	Other	Judaism	1	165	0.3
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other	Latter-day Saints	9	4,568	7.6
Community of Christ	Other	Latter-day Saints	1	121	0.2
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other	Liberal	1	91	0.2
Church of the Lutheran Confession	Evangelical Protestant	Lutheran	1	---	---
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	Lutheran	4	1,216	2.0
Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	Lutheran	3	239	0.4
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	Lutheran	5	3,860	6.4
Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ	Evangelical Protestant	Lutheran	2	316	0.5
North American Lutheran Church	Evangelical Protestant	Lutheran	1	---	---
African Methodist Episcopal Church	Black Protestant	Methodist/Pietist	17	4,574	7.6
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Black Protestant	Methodist/Pietist	1	183	0.3
Christian Methodist Episcopal Church	Black Protestant	Methodist/Pietist	2	196	0.3
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	Methodist/Pietist	1	160	0.3
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA	Evangelical Protestant	Methodist/Pietist	1	---	---
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	Methodist/Pietist	33	18,798	31.2
Bahá'í	Other	Other Groups	2	169	0.3
Buddhism, Mahayana	Other	Other Groups	1	102	0.2
Hindu, Indian-American Hindu Temple Assoc.	Other	Other Groups	1	350	0.6
Muslim Estimate	Other	Other Groups	2	2,794	4.6
Unity Churches, Association of	Other	Other Groups	2	---	---
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	45	13,492	22.4
Calvary Chapel Fellowship Churches	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	1	---	---
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	35	8,950	14.9
Church of God by Faith, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	11	---	---
Church of God in Christ	Black Protestant	Pentecostal	4	294	0.5
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	3	100	0.2
Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith, Inc.	Black Protestant	Pentecostal	6	---	---
Foursquare Gospel, International Church of the	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	1	65	0.1
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	5	728	1.2
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	2	217	0.4
Pentecostal Free Will Baptist Church, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	1	---	---
United Pentecostal Church International	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	4	---	---
United Pentecostal Council of the Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	1	---	---
Vineyard USA	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	1	260	0.4
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	4	1,501	2.5
Bible Presbyterian Church (General Synod)	Evangelical Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	1	---	---
Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches	Evangelical Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	1	---	---
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	14	6,803	11.3
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	7	1,583	2.6
Reformed Presbyterian Church General Assembly	Evangelical Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	1	---	---
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	2	186	0.3
		Totals:	676	244,720

The population of the Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL, Metropolitan Statistical Area was 602,095 in 2010; in 2000 it was 483,924. The total population changed 24.4%. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (244,720) included 40.6% of the total population in 2010.

Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL, Metropolitan Statistical Area includes Polk County, Florida.

^* 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.