Religious Traditions, 2010
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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
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| Religious Bodies |
Tradition |
Family |
Congregations |
Adherents |
Adherence Rate† |
| Catholic Church |
Catholic |
Catholicism |
39 |
175,129 |
365.45 |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
Lutheran |
39 |
28,817 |
60.13 |
| United Methodist Church, The |
Mainline Protestant |
Methodist/Pietist |
32 |
14,557 |
30.38 |
| United Church of Christ |
Mainline Protestant |
Presbyterian-Reformed |
21 |
9,061 |
18.91 |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) |
Mainline Protestant |
Presbyterian-Reformed |
19 |
13,357 |
27.87 |
| Episcopal Church |
Mainline Protestant |
Episcopalianism/Anglicanism |
18 |
7,823 |
16.32 |
| Mennonite Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
European Free-Church |
15 |
2,798 |
5.84 |
| Friends (Quakers) |
Mainline Protestant |
European Free-Church |
12 |
1,827 |
3.81 |
| Mennonite Church, The General Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
European Free-Church |
8 |
2,108 |
4.40 |
| Assemblies of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
Pentecostal |
6 |
572 |
1.19 |
| Conservative Baptist Association of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
Baptist |
6 |
1,358 |
2.83 |
| Reformed Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
Presbyterian-Reformed |
6 |
3,751 |
7.83 |
| American Baptist Churches in the USA |
Mainline Protestant |
Baptist |
5 |
1,239 |
2.59 |
| Jewish |
Other |
Judaism |
5 |
1,625 |
3.39 |
| Christian Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
Ind. Fundamentalist |
4 |
570 |
1.19 |
| Christian and Missionary Alliance, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
Holiness |
3 |
236 |
0.49 |
| Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) |
Evangelical Protestant |
Pentecostal |
3 |
174 |
0.36 |
| Church of the Nazarene |
Evangelical Protestant |
Holiness |
3 |
304 |
0.63 |
| Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
Lutheran |
3 |
1,817 |
3.79 |
| Christian Churches and Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
Baptist |
2 |
138 |
0.29 |
| Church of the Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
European Free-Church |
2 |
303 |
0.63 |
| Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
Baptist |
2 |
363 |
0.76 |
| Presbyterian Church in America |
Evangelical Protestant |
Presbyterian-Reformed |
2 |
230 |
0.48 |
| Primitive Methodist Church in the USA |
Evangelical Protestant |
Methodist/Pietist |
2 |
179 |
0.37 |
| Reformed Episcopal Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
Episcopalianism/Anglicanism |
2 |
171 |
0.36 |
| Southern Baptist Convention |
Evangelical Protestant |
Baptist |
2 |
297 |
0.62 |
| Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations |
Other |
Liberal |
2 |
190 |
0.40 |
| African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church |
Black Protestant |
Methodist/Pietist |
1 |
179 |
0.37 |
| Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio) |
Evangelical Protestant |
European Free-Church |
1 |
117 |
0.24 |
| Brethren In Christ Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
European Free-Church |
1 |
131 |
0.27 |
| Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) |
Mainline Protestant |
Baptist |
1 |
122 |
0.25 |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The |
Other |
Latter-day Saints |
1 |
408 |
0.85 |
| Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
Lutheran |
1 |
236 |
0.49 |
| Moravian Church in America--Northern Province |
Mainline Protestant |
Methodist/Pietist |
1 |
91 |
0.19 |
| North American Baptist Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
Baptist |
1 |
50 |
0.10 |
| Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
Presbyterian-Reformed |
1 |
144 |
0.30 |
| Salvation Army |
Evangelical Protestant |
Holiness |
1 |
906 |
1.89 |
| Seventh-day Adventist Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
Adventist |
1 |
235 |
0.49 |
| American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese |
Orthodox |
Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox) |
0 |
0 |
0.00 |
| Black Baptists Estimate |
Evangelical Protestant |
Baptist |
0 |
0 |
0.00 |
| Church of Christ, Scientist |
Other |
Christian Science |
0 |
0 |
0.00 |
| Church of God of Prophecy |
Evangelical Protestant |
Pentecostal |
0 |
0 |
0.00 |
| Foursquare Gospel, International Church of the |
Evangelical Protestant |
Pentecostal |
0 |
0 |
0.00 |
| Independent Fundamental Churches of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
Ind. Fundamentalist |
0 |
0 |
0.00 |
| Independent, Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
Pentecostal |
0 |
0 |
0.00 |
| Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
---- |
0 |
0 |
0.00 |
| Orthodox Church in America |
Orthodox |
Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox) |
0 |
0 |
0.00 |
| Wesleyan Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
Holiness |
0 |
0 |
0.00 |
| Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
Lutheran |
0 |
0 |
0.00 |
| | Totals: | 274 | 271,613 | | |
The population of Bucks County, Pennsylvania was 479,211 in 1980. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (271,613) included 56.7% of the total population in 1980.
*
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.
