Kansas

Religious Traditions, 2010

516,818	41,666	386,980	3,397	426,611	68,983	1,408,663
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	% Change
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	Baptist	+99	+2,805	+2.9%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	Baptist	+20	+14,239	+30.1%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other	Latter-day Saints	+20	+17,249	+101.8%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	Methodist/Pietist	+18	+3,857	+139.8%
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite	Evangelical Protestant	European Free-Church	+6	+158	+3.7%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	+6	+106	+6.0%
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	European Free-Church	+4	---	---
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	+4	+1,399	+244.2%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	Baptist	+4	+68	+10.5%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	+4	+1,060	+208.3%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	+3	-182	-8.0%
Foursquare Gospel, International Church of the	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	+3	+598	+20.6%
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches *	Evangelical Protestant	European Free-Church	+2	+297	+83.7%
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	Ind. Fundamentalist	+2	---	---
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	Adventist	+2	-118	-1.4%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	Holiness	+1	+809	+143.2%
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	+1	-4	-0.9%
Churches of God, General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	+1	-14	-7.7%
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	+1	+405	+364.9%
Converge Worldwide/Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	Baptist	+1	+151	+520.7%
Fellowship of Evangelical Bible Churches	Evangelical Protestant	European Free-Church	+1	+109	+126.7%
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	+1	+307	+67.5%
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	+1	-43	-7.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	Lutheran	+1	+30	+3.0%
American Association of Lutheran Churches	Evangelical Protestant	Lutheran	+0	---	---
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	European Free-Church	+0	+77	+34.1%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	Holiness	+0	+2,797	+9.4%
Fellowship of Evangelical Churches	Evangelical Protestant	European Free-Church	+0	+373	+95.4%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox)	+0	---	---
Orthodox Church in America	Orthodox	Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox)	+0	---	---
U.S. Mennonite Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	European Free-Church	+0	+838	+18.5%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other	Liberal	+0	+459	+53.4%
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Black Protestant	Methodist/Pietist	-1	+84	+22.9%
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	European Free-Church	-1	+53	+6.2%
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	Adventist	-1	---	---
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	Holiness	-1	+7	+1.8%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	-1	-1,634	-57.5%
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	Baptist	-1	-64	-37.2%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	Holiness	-3	-1,336	-15.7%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	European Free-Church	-3	-1,610	-36.9%
Church of the United Brethren in Christ	Evangelical Protestant	Methodist/Pietist	-3	-265	-64.8%
Salvation Army	Evangelical Protestant	Holiness	-4	+4,159	+195.4%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	Holiness	-5	-396	-18.1%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	-6	-136	-20.2%
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	Baptist	-6	-597	-33.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	Episcopalianism/Anglicanism	-7	-5,737	-29.6%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	Lutheran	-7	-3,764	-6.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	-8	+3,845	+14.8%
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	Ind. Fundamentalist	-10	---	---
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	Holiness	-12	-1,088	-16.0%
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other	Christian Science	-15	---	---
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	Lutheran	-18	-10,770	-23.9%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	Baptist	-22	-1,372	-7.1%
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	European Free-Church	-26	-3,852	-23.3%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	-28	-8,892	-50.5%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	-32	-26,447	-41.5%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	Baptist	-35	-25,943	-34.9%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	Baptist	-49	-19,424	-33.3%
Catholic Church	Catholic	Catholicism	-54	+57,370	+15.5%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	Methodist/Pietist	-67	-35,040	-14.7%
		Totals:	-220	-35,019	-3%

The population of Kansas was 2,853,118 in 2010; in 2000 it was 2,688,418. The total population changed 6.1%. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (1,444,455) included 50.6% of the total population in 2010.

The population of Kansas was 2,477,574 in 1990; in 1980 it was 2,363,679. The total population changed 4.8%. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (1,354,657) included 54.7% of the total population in 1990.

^* 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.