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† |
| African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church |
Black Protestant |
Methodist/Pietist |
12 |
39,183 |
61.38 |
| American Baptist Churches in the USA |
Mainline Protestant |
Baptist |
33 |
28,126 |
44.06 |
| American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese |
Orthodox |
Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox) |
0 |
0 |
0.00 |
| Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses |
Orthodox |
Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox) |
0 |
0 |
0.00 |
| Assemblies of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
Pentecostal |
2 |
625 |
0.98 |
| Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches* |
Evangelical Protestant |
European Free-Church |
1 |
21 |
0.03 |
| Black Baptists Estimate |
Evangelical Protestant |
Baptist |
0 |
0 |
0.00 |
| Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio) |
Evangelical Protestant |
European Free-Church |
1 |
199 |
0.31 |
| Catholic Church |
Catholic |
Catholicism |
44 |
95,794 |
150.07 |
| Christian Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
Ind. Fundamentalist |
4 |
200 |
0.31 |
| Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) |
Mainline Protestant |
Baptist |
5 |
2,009 |
3.15 |
| Christian Methodist Episcopal Church |
Black Protestant |
Methodist/Pietist |
6 |
7,486 |
11.73 |
| Christian Reformed Church in North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
Presbyterian-Reformed |
1 |
178 |
0.28 |
| Church of Christ, Scientist |
Other |
Christian Science |
0 |
0 |
0.00 |
| Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) |
Evangelical Protestant |
Holiness |
6 |
1,923 |
3.01 |
| Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) |
Evangelical Protestant |
Pentecostal |
2 |
198 |
0.31 |
| Church of God (Seventh Day) |
Evangelical Protestant |
Adventist |
1 |
2 |
0.00 |
| Church of God of Prophecy |
Evangelical Protestant |
Pentecostal |
0 |
0 |
0.00 |
| Church of the Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
European Free-Church |
1 |
305 |
0.48 |
| Church of the Nazarene |
Evangelical Protestant |
Holiness |
2 |
405 |
0.63 |
| Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
Baptist |
3 |
730 |
1.14 |
| Episcopal Church |
Mainline Protestant |
Episcopalianism/Anglicanism |
93 |
49,861 |
78.11 |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
Lutheran |
15 |
5,961 |
9.34 |
| Foursquare Gospel, International Church of the |
Evangelical Protestant |
Pentecostal |
0 |
0 |
0.00 |
| Free Methodist Church of North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
Holiness |
2 |
489 |
0.77 |
| Friends (Quakers) |
Mainline Protestant |
European Free-Church |
1 |
610 |
0.96 |
| General Church of the New Jerusalem |
Other |
Spiritualist |
1 |
81 |
0.13 |
| Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America |
Orthodox |
Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox) |
0 |
0 |
0.00 |
| Independent, Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
Pentecostal |
0 |
0 |
0.00 |
| Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
---- |
0 |
0 |
0.00 |
| International Pentecostal Holiness Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
Pentecostal |
2 |
120 |
0.19 |
| Jewish |
Other |
Judaism |
5 |
8,215 |
12.87 |
| Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
Lutheran |
6 |
2,024 |
3.17 |
| Metropolitan Community Churches, Universal Fellowship of |
Mainline Protestant |
Other Groups |
1 |
200 |
0.31 |
| Moravian Church in America--Northern Province |
Mainline Protestant |
Methodist/Pietist |
0 |
0 |
0.00 |
| Orthodox Church in America |
Orthodox |
Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox) |
0 |
0 |
0.00 |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) |
Mainline Protestant |
Presbyterian-Reformed |
42 |
14,789 |
23.17 |
| Salvation Army |
Evangelical Protestant |
Holiness |
3 |
1,537 |
2.41 |
| Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada |
Evangelical Protestant |
Baptist |
1 |
77 |
0.12 |
| Seventh-day Adventist Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
Adventist |
10 |
3,921 |
6.14 |
| Southern Baptist Convention |
Evangelical Protestant |
Baptist |
23 |
18,935 |
29.66 |
| Swedenborgian Church |
Other |
Spiritualist |
1 |
70 |
0.11 |
| Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch |
Orthodox |
Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox) |
0 |
0 |
0.00 |
| Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations |
Other |
Liberal |
2 |
1,181 |
1.85 |
| United Church of Christ |
Mainline Protestant |
Presbyterian-Reformed |
9 |
6,101 |
9.56 |
| United Methodist Church, The |
Mainline Protestant |
Methodist/Pietist |
35 |
20,888 |
32.72 |
| | Totals: | 376 | 312,444 | | |
The population of District of Columbia, District of Columbia was 638,333 in 1980. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (312,444) included 48.9% 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.
