Metro-Area Membership Report
Religious Traditions, 2010
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| 777,643 | 238,222 | 817,579 | 7,216,151 | 185,309 | 1,628,119 | 8,704,387 | | Evangelical Protestant | Black Protestant | Mainline Protestant | Catholic | Orthodox | Other | Unclaimed |
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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 |
1,313 |
6,465,689 |
383.31 |
| Episcopal Church |
Mainline Protestant |
Episcopalianism/Anglicanism |
559 |
273,556 |
16.22 |
| United Methodist Church, The |
Mainline Protestant |
Methodist/Pietist |
601 |
242,792 |
14.39 |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) |
Mainline Protestant |
Presbyterian-Reformed |
515 |
210,809 |
12.50 |
| Jewish |
Other |
Judaism |
380 |
199,160 |
11.81 |
| African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church |
Black Protestant |
Methodist/Pietist |
112 |
179,951 |
10.67 |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
Lutheran |
361 |
170,424 |
10.10 |
| American Baptist Churches in the USA |
Mainline Protestant |
Baptist |
328 |
166,935 |
9.90 |
| Reformed Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
Presbyterian-Reformed |
245 |
94,154 |
5.58 |
| Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
Lutheran |
149 |
71,937 |
4.26 |
| United Church of Christ |
Mainline Protestant |
Presbyterian-Reformed |
139 |
48,263 |
2.86 |
| Assemblies of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
Pentecostal |
241 |
42,898 |
2.54 |
| Seventh-day Adventist Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
Adventist |
140 |
33,458 |
1.98 |
| Salvation Army |
Evangelical Protestant |
Holiness |
50 |
15,957 |
0.95 |
| Conservative Baptist Association of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
Baptist |
75 |
14,053 |
0.83 |
| Southern Baptist Convention |
Evangelical Protestant |
Baptist |
83 |
13,909 |
0.82 |
| Christian Methodist Episcopal Church |
Black Protestant |
Methodist/Pietist |
16 |
11,693 |
0.69 |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The |
Other |
Latter-day Saints |
44 |
11,327 |
0.67 |
| Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch |
Orthodox |
Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox) |
4 |
10,373 |
0.61 |
| Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) |
Mainline Protestant |
Baptist |
47 |
10,291 |
0.61 |
| Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations |
Other |
Liberal |
42 |
9,689 |
0.57 |
| Church of the Nazarene |
Evangelical Protestant |
Holiness |
51 |
9,606 |
0.57 |
| Christian Reformed Church in North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
Presbyterian-Reformed |
29 |
8,582 |
0.51 |
| Christian and Missionary Alliance, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
Holiness |
61 |
7,646 |
0.45 |
| Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) |
Evangelical Protestant |
Holiness |
31 |
7,062 |
0.42 |
| Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) |
Evangelical Protestant |
Pentecostal |
116 |
7,008 |
0.42 |
| Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
Baptist |
57 |
5,631 |
0.33 |
| Christian Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
Ind. Fundamentalist |
57 |
5,310 |
0.31 |
| Friends (Quakers) |
Mainline Protestant |
European Free-Church |
40 |
4,385 |
0.26 |
| Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church |
Mainline Protestant |
Lutheran |
5 |
4,383 |
0.26 |
| Moravian Church in America--Northern Province |
Mainline Protestant |
Methodist/Pietist |
10 |
3,783 |
0.22 |
| National Association of Congregational Christian Churches |
Mainline Protestant |
Presbyterian-Reformed |
9 |
3,444 |
0.20 |
| Armenian Apostolic Church of America (Catholicosate of Cilicia) |
Orthodox |
Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox) |
3 |
3,425 |
0.20 |
| Bible Church of Christ, Inc. |
Evangelical Protestant |
Pentecostal |
2 |
3,238 |
0.19 |
| Evangelical Free Church of America, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
Methodist/Pietist |
28 |
3,087 |
0.18 |
| Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA |
Orthodox |
Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox) |
7 |
1,805 |
0.11 |
| Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
Lutheran |
10 |
1,503 |
0.09 |
| Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese in Americas |
Orthodox |
Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox) |
1 |
1,449 |
0.09 |
| Christian Churches and Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
Baptist |
24 |
1,272 |
0.08 |
| Evangelical Covenant Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
Methodist/Pietist |
10 |
1,128 |
0.07 |
| Free Methodist Church of North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
Holiness |
8 |
1,026 |
0.06 |
| North American Baptist Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
Baptist |
7 |
902 |
0.05 |
| Converge Worldwide/Baptist General Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
Baptist |
8 |
857 |
0.05 |
| Reformed Episcopal Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
Episcopalianism/Anglicanism |
7 |
792 |
0.05 |
| Conservative Congregational Christian Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
Presbyterian-Reformed |
5 |
768 |
0.05 |
| Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
Presbyterian-Reformed |
7 |
721 |
0.04 |
| Metropolitan Community Churches, Universal Fellowship of |
Mainline Protestant |
Other Groups |
4 |
690 |
0.04 |
| Evangelical Congregational Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
Methodist/Pietist |
2 |
493 |
0.03 |
| Mennonite Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
European Free-Church |
13 |
428 |
0.03 |
| Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
Lutheran |
4 |
414 |
0.02 |
| Presbyterian Church in America |
Evangelical Protestant |
Presbyterian-Reformed |
5 |
334 |
0.02 |
| Church of Jesus Christ, The (Bickertonites) |
Other |
Latter-day Saints |
7 |
282 |
0.02 |
| Brethren In Christ Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
European Free-Church |
2 |
262 |
0.02 |
| Church of the Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
European Free-Church |
2 |
257 |
0.02 |
| Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
Lutheran |
2 |
246 |
0.01 |
| Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
Presbyterian-Reformed |
2 |
188 |
0.01 |
| Swedenborgian Church |
Other |
Spiritualist |
2 |
185 |
0.01 |
| Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarene) |
Evangelical Protestant |
European Free-Church |
3 |
175 |
0.01 |
| Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada |
Evangelical Protestant |
Baptist |
4 |
170 |
0.01 |
| Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc. |
Evangelical Protestant |
Pentecostal |
1 |
140 |
0.01 |
| Holiness Church of God, Inc., The |
Evangelical Protestant |
Pentecostal |
4 |
115 |
0.01 |
| International Pentecostal Holiness Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
Pentecostal |
1 |
80 |
0.00 |
| Primitive Methodist Church in the USA |
Evangelical Protestant |
Methodist/Pietist |
1 |
77 |
0.00 |
| Church of God (Seventh Day) |
Evangelical Protestant |
Adventist |
2 |
68 |
0.00 |
| Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio) |
Evangelical Protestant |
European Free-Church |
1 |
52 |
0.00 |
| Protestant Reformed Churches in America |
Evangelical Protestant |
Presbyterian-Reformed |
1 |
39 |
0.00 |
| General Church of the New Jerusalem |
Other |
Spiritualist |
1 |
24 |
0.00 |
| Advent Christian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
Adventist |
1 |
18 |
0.00 |
| American Association of Lutheran Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
Lutheran |
0 |
0 |
0.00 |
| 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 |
| Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc. |
Evangelical Protestant |
European Free-Church |
0 |
0 |
0.00 |
| Black Baptists Estimate |
Evangelical Protestant |
Baptist |
0 |
0 |
0.00 |
| Byelorussion Council Of Orthodox Churches In North America |
Orthodox |
Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox) |
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 |
| Church of the United Brethren in Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
Methodist/Pietist |
0 |
0 |
0.00 |
| Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body) |
Mainline Protestant |
Presbyterian-Reformed |
0 |
0 |
0.00 |
| Evangelical Presbyterian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
Presbyterian-Reformed |
0 |
0 |
0.00 |
| Foursquare Gospel, International Church of the |
Evangelical Protestant |
Pentecostal |
0 |
0 |
0.00 |
| Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America |
Orthodox |
Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox) |
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 |
| International Pentecostal Church of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
Pentecostal |
0 |
0 |
0.00 |
| Missionary Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
Holiness |
0 |
0 |
0.00 |
| Netherlands Reformed Congregations |
Evangelical Protestant |
Presbyterian-Reformed |
0 |
0 |
0.00 |
| Orthodox Church in America |
Orthodox |
Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox) |
0 |
0 |
0.00 |
| Orthodox Church in America: Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese |
Orthodox |
Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox) |
0 |
0 |
0.00 |
| Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America |
Orthodox |
Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox) |
0 |
0 |
0.00 |
| Pentecostal Church of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
Pentecostal |
0 |
0 |
0.00 |
| Wesleyan Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
Holiness |
0 |
0 |
0.00 |
| | Totals: | 6,102 | 8,390,868 | | |
The population of the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA, Metropolitan Statistical Area was 16,868,198 in 1980. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (8,390,868) included 49.7% of the total population in 1980.
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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.
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