Top 15 Reporting Religious Bodies Elmira, NY
Church, Christian, or Religious Body	Adherents (and rank)						Congregations
	in 2000			in 1990			in 2000	in 1990
Catholic Church, The	22,686	(1)		27,704	(1)		12	12
United Methodist Church, The	5,707	(2)		7,732	(2)		21	22
American Baptist Churches in the USA	2,092	(3)		1,822	(4)		6	6
Presbyterian Church (USA)	1,919	(4)		2,436	(3)		6	6
Assemblies of God	1,640	(5)		1,204	(7)		5	4
Episcopal Church	1,464	(6)		1,655	(5)		6	6
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	1,080	(7)		1,474	(6)		3	3
United Church of Christ	746	(8)		1,201	(8)		2	2
General Association of Regular Baptist Churches	717	(9)		NA			4	NA
Wesleyan Church, The	708	(10)		997	(11)		3	5
Jewish Estimate	650	(11)		1,100	(9)		2	2
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	621	(12)		449	(16)		2	2
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	455	(13)		526	(14)		1	1
Seventh-day Adventist Church	378	(14)		353	(17)		3	1
Church of the Nazarene	309	(15)		533	(13)		3	3

Metropolitan Population, 2000 Census:		91,070
Percent of Population Claimed by Reporting Groups:		46.8%

National Average: 50.2% claimed

Reporting Groups (149 possible):	27	(27 of 133 in 1990)
Total Reported Adherents:	42,608	(52,282 in 1990)
Total Reported Congregations:	93	(89 in 1990)

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