Top 15 Reporting Religious Bodies Benton Harbor, MI
Church, Christian, or Religious Body	Adherents (and rank)						Congregations
	in 2000			in 1990			in 2000	in 1990
Catholic Church, The	25,366	(1)		22,424	(1)		12	12
Seventh-day Adventist Church	10,912	(2)		8,208	(4)		22	14
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	8,960	(3)		9,768	(2)		10	10
United Methodist Church, The	5,175	(4)		6,972	(5)		24	26
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	4,176	(5)		4,910	(6)		6	6
United Church of Christ	3,119	(6)		4,451	(7)		13	15
Assemblies of God	1,842	(7)		1,985	(9)		5	5
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	1,736	(8)		1,397	(12)		5	4
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	1,521	(9)		969	(14)		7	9
Presbyterian Church (USA)	1,503	(10)		1,996	(8)		5	5
North American Baptist Conference	1,430	(11)		1,583	(10)		5	5
Southern Baptist Convention	1,387	(12)		924	(15)		7	7
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	1,038	(13)		1,450	(11)		5	5
General Association of Regular Baptist Churches	831	(14)		NA			4	NA
American Baptist Churches in the USA	714	(15)		1,382	(13)		3	3

Metropolitan Population, 2000 Census:		162,453
Percent of Population Claimed by Reporting Groups:		46.9%

National Average: 50.2% claimed

Reporting Groups (149 possible):	45	(41 of 133 in 1990)
Total Reported Adherents:	76,180	(83,979 in 1990)
Total Reported Congregations:	186	(179 in 1990)

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