Top 15 Reporting Religious Bodies Dover, DE
Church, Christian, or Religious Body	Adherents (and rank)						Congregations
	in 2000			in 1990			in 2000	in 1990
Catholic Church, The	12,964	(1)		6,861	(2)		4	4
United Methodist Church, The	10,567	(2)		10,610	(1)		29	32
Presbyterian Church (USA)	1,955	(3)		743	(10)		2	2
Episcopal Church	1,712	(4)		1,899	(4)		5	5
Jewish Estimate	1,600	(5)		650	(13)		1	1
Assemblies of God	1,586	(6)		1,247	(6)		2	1
American Baptist Churches in the USA	1,345	(7)		1,038	(8)		3	2
Wesleyan Church, The	1,193	(8)		937	(9)		5	4
Southern Baptist Convention	998	(9)		1,640	(5)		5	4
Church of the Nazarene	914	(10)		642	(14)		6	4
Seventh-day Adventist Church	650	(11)		688	(12)		5	5
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	631	(12)		524	(16)		2	2
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	628	(13)		732	(11)		1	2
Old Order Amish Church	608	(14)		1,200	(7)		8	8
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	545	(15)		556	(15)		1	1

Metropolitan Population, 2000 Census:		126,697
Percent of Population Claimed by Reporting Groups:		32.1%

National Average: 50.2% claimed

Reporting Groups (149 possible):	36	(33 of 133 in 1990)
Total Reported Adherents:	40,681	(38,582 in 1990)
Total Reported Congregations:	109	(98 in 1990)

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