Top 15 Reporting Religious Bodies Baton Rouge, LA
Church, Christian, or Religious Body	Adherents (and rank)						Congregations
	in 2000			in 1990			in 2000	in 1990
Catholic Church, The	147,724	(1)		151,163	(1)		50	45
Southern Baptist Convention	94,919	(2)		102,192	(2)		124	110
United Methodist Church, The	29,443	(3)		28,007	(4)		49	52
Independent, Charismatic Churches	13,325	(4)		6,600	(5)		3	4
Episcopal Church	5,726	(5)		5,124	(7)		11	11
Presbyterian Church (USA)	4,501	(6)		5,215	(6)		14	15
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	2,866	(7)		3,182	(8)		9	8
Churches of Christ	2,485	(8)		2,474	(11)		19	18
American Baptist Churches in the USA	2,231	(9)		2,475	(10)		3	4
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	1,925	(10)		2,150	(13)		5	3
Assemblies of God	1,902	(11)		2,628	(9)		15	14
Seventh-day Adventist Church	1,812	(12)		1,391	(15)		7	6
Jewish Estimate	1,640	(13)		1,200	(16)		2	2
Muslims Estimate	1,609	(14)		NA			2	NA
Baptist Missionary Association of America	1,582	(15)		2,370	(12)		4	6

Metropolitan Population, 2000 Census:		602,894
Percent of Population Claimed by Reporting Groups:		53.6%

National Average: 50.2% claimed

Reporting Groups (149 possible):	44	(41 of 133 in 1990)
Total Reported Adherents:	322,898	(366,056 in 1990)
Total Reported Congregations:	379	(355 in 1990)

The metro area included 4 counties (or equivalent) at the time of the 2000 census:
	Ascension Parish, LA; East Baton Rouge Parish, LA; Livingston Parish, LA; West Baton Rouge Parish, LA
	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.