Top 15 Reporting Religious Bodies Burlington, VT (NECMA)
Church, Christian, or Religious Body	Adherents (and rank)						Congregations
	in 2000			in 1990			in 2000	in 1990
Catholic Church, The	57,380	(1)		62,118	(1)		40	37
United Methodist Church, The	6,385	(2)		7,303	(2)		32	33
United Church of Christ	4,610	(3)		5,251	(3)		19	20
Episcopal Church	3,143	(4)		2,881	(5)		13	14
Jewish Estimate	3,000	(5)		3,000	(4)		3	4
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	2,931	(6)		1,095	(7)		5	3
American Baptist Churches in the USA	1,805	(7)		1,547	(6)		11	12
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Vasiloupulis	1,720	(8)		NA			2	NA
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	1,027	(9)		543	(10)		3	1
Assemblies of God	946	(10)		1,033	(8)		7	4
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	689	(11)		694	(9)		2	1
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	583	(12)		478	(11)		2	2
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	408	(13)		454	(12)		1	1
Baptist General Conference	340	(14)		0	()		1	0
Church of the Nazarene	262	(15)		295	(13)		2	2

Metropolitan Population, 2000 Census:		198,889
Percent of Population Claimed by Reporting Groups:		43.6%

National Average: 50.2% claimed

Reporting Groups (149 possible):	34	(26 of 133 in 1990)
Total Reported Adherents:	86,685	(87,718 in 1990)
Total Reported Congregations:	166	(149 in 1990)

The metro area included 3 counties (or equivalent) at the time of the 2000 census:
	Chittenden County, VT; Franklin County, VT; Grand Isle County, VT
	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.