Top 15 Reporting Religious Bodies Columbus, GA-AL
Church, Christian, or Religious Body	Adherents (and rank)						Congregations
	in 2000			in 1990			in 2000	in 1990
Southern Baptist Convention	69,684	(1)		66,334	(1)		99	96
United Methodist Church, The	21,660	(2)		20,325	(3)		45	54
Catholic Church, The	7,865	(3)		5,897	(5)		8	8
Assemblies of God	6,181	(4)		7,273	(4)		25	25
Presbyterian Church (USA)	2,683	(5)		2,638	(7)		10	10
Churches of Christ	2,105	(6)		2,060	(8)		19	18
Seventh-day Adventist Church	2,055	(7)		1,425	(11)		10	7
Muslims Estimate	1,827	(8)		NA			3	NA
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	1,723	(9)		1,583	(9)		6	5
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	1,713	(10)		1,554	(10)		8	8
Episcopal Church	1,653	(11)		1,409	(12)		5	5
Jewish Estimate	1,100	(12)		1,000	(13)		2	2
Church of the Nazarene	653	(13)		639	(18)		4	4
National Association of Free Will Baptists	598	(14)		767	(15)		5	7
Salvation Army, The	578	(15)		234	(22)		1	1

Metropolitan Population, 2000 Census:		274,624
Percent of Population Claimed by Reporting Groups:		45.4%

National Average: 50.2% claimed

Reporting Groups (149 possible):	34	(33 of 133 in 1990)
Total Reported Adherents:	124,580	(150,483 in 1990)
Total Reported Congregations:	279	(299 in 1990)

The metro area included 4 counties (or equivalent) at the time of the 2000 census:
	Russell County, AL; Chattahoochee County, GA; Harris County, GA; Muscogee County, GA
	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.