Top 15 Reporting Religious Bodies Albuquerque, NM
Church, Christian, or Religious Body	Adherents (and rank)						Congregations
	in 2000			in 1990			in 2000	in 1990
Catholic Church, The	254,416	(1)		164,201	(1)		79	78
Southern Baptist Convention	26,652	(2)		36,889	(2)		59	48
United Methodist Church, The	12,735	(3)		17,048	(4)		23	23
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	12,000	(4)		18,124	(3)		1	11
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	11,774	(5)		10,452	(5)		33	25
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	7,943	(6)		8,296	(6)		10	10
Jewish Estimate	7,500	(7)		4,400	(9)		4	2
Assemblies of God	6,369	(8)		6,756	(7)		32	24
Presbyterian Church (USA)	6,078	(9)		6,423	(8)		18	18
Episcopal Church	5,320	(10)		4,181	(10)		11	9
Churches of Christ	3,443	(11)		3,552	(13)		20	20
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	3,076	(12)		2,551	(14)		9	11
Seventh-day Adventist Church	2,720	(13)		2,072	(16)		14	10
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	2,642	(14)		3,604	(12)		11	10
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	2,566	(15)		2,224	(15)		2	1

Metropolitan Population, 2000 Census:		712,738
Percent of Population Claimed by Reporting Groups:		53.8%

National Average: 50.2% claimed

Reporting Groups (149 possible):	61	(51 of 133 in 1990)
Total Reported Adherents:	383,598	(306,131 in 1990)
Total Reported Congregations:	443	(376 in 1990)

The metro area included 3 counties (or equivalent) at the time of the 2000 census:
	Bernalillo County, NM; Sandoval County, NM; Valencia County, NM
	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.