Top 15 Reporting Religious Bodies Barnstable-Yarmouth, MA (NECMA)
Church, Christian, or Religious Body	Adherents (and rank)						Congregations
	in 2000			in 1990			in 2000	in 1990
Catholic Church, The	63,729	(1)		89,000	(1)		29	29
Episcopal Church	7,093	(2)		8,028	(2)		11	11
United Church of Christ	6,141	(3)		6,755	(3)		17	17
United Methodist Church, The	4,241	(4)		4,073	(4)		15	15
Jewish Estimate	3,250	(5)		2,900	(5)		5	2
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	1,784	(6)		2,157	(6)		7	8
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	1,564	(7)		1,358	(8)		3	3
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	1,533	(8)		NR			1	1
American Baptist Churches in the USA	1,209	(9)		1,387	(7)		9	7
Conservative Baptist Association of America	745	(10)		NR			5	5
Assemblies of God	600	(11)		686	(10)		5	4
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	528	(12)		752	(9)		1	1
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	375	(13)		204	(16)		2	3
Armenian Church of America, The / Catholicossate of Etchmiadzin	280	(14)		NA			1	NA
Church of the Nazarene	273	(15)		207	(15)		2	2

Metropolitan Population, 2000 Census:		222,230
Percent of Population Claimed by Reporting Groups:		42.9%

National Average: 50.2% claimed

Reporting Groups (149 possible):	31	(27 of 133 in 1990)
Total Reported Adherents:	95,326	(119,830 in 1990)
Total Reported Congregations:	133	(129 in 1990)

The metro area included 1 county (or equivalent) at the time of the 2000 census:
	Barnstable County, MA
	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.