| Denomination | Churches | Adherents | Percent |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catholic | 139 | 143,938 | 25.58% |
| United Methodist Church | 143 | 24,578 | 4.37% |
| United Church of Christ | 148 | 24,461 | 4.35% |
| Episcopal Church | 50 | 9,628 | 1.71% |
| American Baptist Churches in the U.S.A. | 63 | 8,786 | 1.56% |
| Judaism | 7 | 4,400 | 0.78% |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 12 | 2,855 | 0.51% |
| Assemblies of God | 18 | 2,642 | 0.47% |
| Lutheran | 10 | 2,152 | 0.38% |
| Unitarian/Unitarian Universalist | 19 | 2,056 | 0.37% |
| Christian and Missionary Alliance | 10 | 1,706 | 0.30% |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America | 7 | 1,522 | 0.27% |
| Congregational Christian Churches - independent | 15 | 1,449 | 0.26% |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) | 10 | 1,031 | 0.18% |
| Church of the Nazarene | 9 | 965 | 0.17% |
| Seventh-day Adventists | 13 | 822 | 0.15% |
| Southern Baptist Convention | 12 | 860 | 0.15% |
| Churches of Christ | 11 | 653 | 0.12% |
| Christianity - independent churches - charismatic | 1 | 500 | 0.09% |
| Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod | 2 | 494 | 0.09% |
| Quakers | 12 | 438 | 0.08% |
| Advent Christian Church | 5 | 399 | 0.07% |
| Christian Reformed Church | 1 | 369 | 0.07% |
| Evangelical Free Church | 5 | 387 | 0.07% |
| Mennonite Church | 3 | 280 | 0.05% |
| Baptist - black denominations | -- | 196 | 0.03% |
| Conservative Congregational Christian Conference | 1 | 156 | 0.03% |
| Salvation Army | 3 | 143 | 0.03% |
| Christian Churches and Churches of Christ | 3 | 138 | 0.02% |
| Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) | 2 | 106 | 0.02% |
| Congregational Christian Churches, National Association of | 2 | 125 | 0.02% |
| International Church of the Foursquare Gospel | 3 | 92 | 0.02% |
| Plymouth Brethren | 2 | 100 | 0.02% |
| Presbyterian Church in America | 1 | 117 | 0.02% |
| Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod | 1 | 136 | 0.02% |
| Church of God of Prophecy | 2 | 68 | 0.01% |
| Free Methodist Church of North America | 1 | 45 | 0.01% |
| Wesleyan Church | 2 | 74 | 0.01% |
| Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) | 1 | 21 | -- |
| Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church | 1 | 15 | -- |
| Pentecostal Holiness Church | 1 | 6 | -- |
| Christian Science | 13 | -- | -- |
| Conservative Baptist Association of America | 3 | -- | -- |
| Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America | 2 | -- | -- |
| Independent Fundamental Churches of America | 4 | -- | -- |
| Orthodox Church in America | 1 | -- | -- |
| Denomination | Percent of Religious Adherents | Percent of Total Population | Churches |
|---|---|---|---|
| Congregationalist | 65.0% | 5.9% | 13 |
| Baptist | 10.0% | 0.9% | 2 |
| Episcopal Church | 10.0% | 0.9% | 2 |
| Presbyterian | 10.0% | 0.9% | 2 |
| other | 5.0% | 0.5% | 1 |
| Denomination | Percent of Total Population |
|---|---|
| affiliated | 32.2% |
| Congregationalist | 9.2% |
| Methodist | 8.6% |
| Baptist | 5.6% |
| Episcopal Church | 0.8% |
| Presbyterian | 0.5% |
| clergy | 0.2% |
| Denomination | Percent |
|---|---|
| Christianity* | 83.6% |
| Catholic | 36.7% |
| Protestant - no denomination supplied | 17.3% |
| Nonreligious | 11.4% |
| Methodist | 5.6% |
| Baptist | 5.3% |
| Congregationalist | 4.1% |
| Episcopalian | 3.5% |
| Christianity - no denomination supplied | 3.0% |
| Presbyterian | 2.0% |
| Lutheran | 1.3% |
| Agnostic | 1.2% |
| Church of God - all denominations | 1.2% |
| Seventh-day Adventists | 1.2% |
| Judaism | 1.1% |
| Unitarian/Unitarian Universalist | 1.1% |
| Jehovah's Witnesses | 0.6% |
| Orthodox (Eastern Christian) | 0.6% |
| Church of the Nazarene | 0.4% |
| Pentecostal | 0.4% |
| Mennonite | 0.2% |
| Buddhism | 0.0% |
| Hinduism | 0.0% |
| Islam | 0.0% |
| Group | Where | Number of Adherents |
% of total pop. |
Number of congreg./ churches/ units |
Number of countries |
Year | Source | Quote/ Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christianity - affiliated | Vermont | 233,000 | 40.40% | -- | -- | 1990 | Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1997, 117th Edition. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Commerce (Oct. 1997), pg. 70. [Original source: M. Bradley; N. Green, Jr.; D. Jones; M. Lynn; and L. McNeil; Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1990. Atlanta, GA: Glenmary Research Center (1992)] | Table: "No. 87: Christian Church Adherents, 1990 "; "Christian church adherents were defined as 'all members, including full members, their children and the est. number of other regular participants who are not considered as communicant, confirmed or full members.' " |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | Vermont | 3,400 | 0.60% | 11 units |
-- | 1995 | Deseret News 1997-98 Church Almanac. Deseret News: Salt Lake City, UT (1996), pg. 188-408. | "Year-end 1995: Est. population [of country]; Members, [number shown in '# of adherents' column to left] " |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | Vermont | 3,500 | 0.60% | 12 units |
-- | 1997 | Deseret News 1999-2000 Church Almanac. Deseret News: Salt Lake City, UT (1998), pg. 170-266. | Information from a variety of sources. Figures for year-end 1997. |
| clergy | Vermont | -- | 0.20% | -- | -- | 1850 | Finke, Roger and Rodney Stark. The Churching of America, 1776-1990. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press (1992; 3rd printing 1997), pg. 69. | Figure 3.4: "Clergy per 1,000 Population, 1850 " |
| Fellowship of Christian Assemblies | Vermont | -- | -- | 3 units |
-- | 1998 | *LINK* official organization web site | counted listings from church directory |
| Grace Brethren | Vermont | -- | -- | 1 unit |
-- | 1998 | *LINK* official organization web site (viewed circa September 1998) | directory of churches [Grace Brethren -- historical branch of Schwarzenau Brethren] |
| Independent Fundamental Churches International | Vermont | -- | -- | 3 units |
-- | 1998 | *LINK* official organization web site | Counted listings on directory |
| Judaism | Vermont | 6,000 | 1.00% | -- | -- | 1995 | Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1997, 117th Edition. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Commerce (Oct. 1997), pg. 70. [original source: American Jewish Year Book. New York, NY: American Jewish Committee (1995)] | Table: "No. 87: Christian Church Adherents, 1990, and Jewish Population, 1995 - States "; "The Jewish population includes Jews who define themselves as Jewish by religion as well as those who define themselves as Jewish in cultural terms. Data... based primarily on a compilation of individual estimates made by local Jewish federations. " |
| Native North Americans | Vermont | 1,696 | 0.30% | -- | -- | 1990 | Utter, Jack. American Indians: Answers to Today's Questions. Lake Ann, Michigan: National Woodlands Publishing Co. (1993), pg. 18-19. | Table: "Indian population in each of the 50 states... "; From 1990 U.S. Census: figures include "Indian and Alaska Native Population [both Aleut and Eskimo]. |
| Neo-Paganism | Vermont | 2,000 | -- | -- | -- | 1992 | Berger, Helen A. A Community of Witches: Contemporary Neo-Paganism and Witchcraft in the United States. Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press (1999), pg. 9-10. | Table: "Distribution of Neo-Pagans Participating in Neo-Pagan Census in U.S. "; Cols: State; Number [of Census participants]; % [of particpants]; Pg. xvi: "[Received] more than 2,000 responses... survey was distributed through Wiccan and Neo-Pagan organizations..., published in journals,.. Internet [and] at festivals. [unable] to guarantee that the survey was randomly distributed. "; Pg. 10: "...actual % by state are at best an approximation. "; Raw number presented here based on state % from this table, as a portion of estimated 200,000 [1992] U.S. total (pg. 9).; Vermont %: 1 [This means that 1% of the respondents in the Neo-Pagan survey were from Vermont. It does not mean that 1% of the population of Vermont is Neo-Pagan.] |
| Oneida Community | Vermont | -- | -- | 1 unit |
-- | 1846 | Cavendish, Richard (ed.). Man, Myth and Magic: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Supernatural (vol. 4). New York: Marshall Cavendish Corp. (1970), pg. 502. Chapter: "Communistic Religious Movements "; author: Bryan Wilson. | "After a false start in 1846 at Putney, Vermont, where local hostility drove them out, the Perfectionists who had gathered around Noyes set up a community at Oneida [New York]. " |
| Oneida Community | Vermont | -- | -- | 1 unit |
-- | 1870 | Kephart, William M. and William W. Zellner. Extraordinary Groups: An Examination of Unconventional Life-Styles (5th Ed.). New York: St. Martin's Press (1994), pg. 63. | "At one time or another, there were 7 branches, all under the leadership of John Humphrey Noyes. In addition to the main group at Oneida [Oneida Creek, NY], there were smaller branches at Willow Place, New York; Cambridge, Vermont; Newark, New Jersey; Wallingford, Connecticut; New York City; and Putney, Vermont... " [NOTE: These were not necessarily all open at one time.] |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) | Vermont | 743 | 0.13% | 9 units |
-- | 1995 | *LINK* official organization web page: Comparative Statistics; [original source for states pop. data: U.S. Bureau of the Census] | Table: "PCUSA Membership by State/Territory -- 1995 "; Columns: "Number of Members ", "Members as a Percent of State Population " and "Number of Congregations " |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) | Vermont | 743 | 0.13% | 9 units |
-- | 1997 | *LINK* official organization web page: Comparative Statistics; [original source for states pop. data: U.S. Bureau of the Census] | Table: "PCUSA Membership by State/Territory -- 1997 "; Columns: "Number of Members ", "Members as a Percent of State Population " and "Number of Congregations " |
| Catholic | Vermont | 166,000 | 31.00% | -- | -- | 1989 | Greeley, Andrew M. The Catholic Myth: The Behavior and Beliefs of American Catholics. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons (1990), pg. 112-114. [Original sources: Official Catholic Directory, based on parish-level reporting, and U.S. 1989 Statistical Abstract] | Table: "Catholic Population by State "; [Greeley (author) has conduced a somewhat detailed analysis, adding some adjustments to account for statistically observed undercount, plus some other factors.] |
| Catholic | Vermont | 147,190 | 25.10% | 93 units |
-- | 1996 | 1998 Catholic Almanac: Our Sunday Visitor: USA (1997), pg. 432-437. | Tables: "Catholic Population of the United States " and "Percentage of Catholics in Total Population in U.S. ". Figures are as of Jan. 1, 1997. |
| Unity Church | Vermont | -- | -- | 1 unit |
-- | 1998 | *LINK* official organization web site (viewed 1998) | Counted the churches in their directory. |
| Urantia Book Readers, Fellowship of | Vermont | -- | -- | 1 unit |
-- | 1997 | *LINK* official organization web site (1998) | directory: "1996-1997 International Study Group Directory for readers of The Urantia Book " |
| Judaism - nondenominational | Vermont: Montpelier | 320 | -- | 1 unit |
-- | 1993 | Wertheimer, Jack. A People Divided: Juadism in Contemporary America. New York: Basic Books (A Division of Harper Collins) (1993), pg. 77. | "And in Montpelier, Vermont, eighty families practice 'new-age Judaism' in a nondenominational synagogue that functions without a rabbi. " |