Top 15 Reporting Religious Bodies Albany, GA
Church, Christian, or Religious Body	Adherents (and rank)						Congregations
	in 2000			in 1990			in 2000	in 1990
Southern Baptist Convention	21,578	(1)		23,611	(1)		28	25
United Methodist Church, The	10,320	(2)		10,509	(3)		11	11
Catholic Church, The	4,829	(3)		3,456	(4)		1	1
Churches of Christ	1,530	(4)		1,553	(5)		10	8
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	1,477	(5)		1,236	(6)		6	5
Independent, Charismatic Churches	1,200	(6)		925	(10)		2	2
Episcopal Church	1,195	(7)		1,125	(7)		4	4
Assemblies of God	1,104	(8)		950	(9)		3	2
Presbyterian Church (USA)	831	(9)		1,097	(8)		5	5
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	690	(10)		545	(13)		2	1
Muslims Estimate	601	(11)		NA			3	NA
Seventh-day Adventist Church	556	(12)		468	(14)		3	3
Church of the Nazarene	386	(13)		234	(19)		3	2
Salvation Army, The	349	(14)		178	(22)		1	1
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the United States and Canada	313	(15)		229	(20)		1	1

Metropolitan Population, 2000 Census:		120,822
Percent of Population Claimed by Reporting Groups:		40.1%

National Average: 50.2% claimed

Reporting Groups (149 possible):	29	(30 of 133 in 1990)
Total Reported Adherents:	48,491	(65,448 in 1990)
Total Reported Congregations:	101	(92 in 1990)

The metro area included 2 counties (or equivalent) at the time of the 2000 census:
	Dougherty County, GA; Lee County, GA
	The newly published book Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000 includes a CD that allows users to determine such lists for any selected group of counties.
Source:	Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000 Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990
	Both studies, copyrighted by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies, are published by the Glenmary Research Center, Nashville, Tenn. More information is available at www.glenmary.org/grc.