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Faith Community Statistics DEVELOPMENT OF FAITH COMMUNITY STATISTICAL
DATA One of the first steps taken by our Faith Committee was to develop an understanding of our Character Council Region in general and our Faith Community in particular. It was desired to base our understanding on recorded, public data. The results were statistical analyses by county, as included below. In summary we found that the Character Council Region of Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky is comprised of 7 counties with a population totaling 1.8 million citizens. In our community we learned, for example, that (according to the yellow pages) there are 1730 congregations: 1490 Protestant, 164 Catholic, 23 Jewish and 52 other. Of the 1490 Protestant, 32% are Baptist, 9% United Methodist, 6% Church of God, 6% Church of Christ, and 5% Presbyterian. In our Character Council Region the non-white population is approximately 25% in Hamilton County and 3% in each of the other 6 counties. The detailed statistical data in these analyses help us as we proceed strategically to encourage faith congregations to encourage their congregations to practice the monthly character qualities. The first report shows the distribution of citizens by county. The source used for the estimates of population data was the 2000 County and City Extra: Annual Metro, City, and County Data Book, recommended to us as the best source providing current data between census reports. This source also breaks down county data by race, which provides additional valuable understanding of the community. The second report gives the numbers and types of churches, synagogues, temples and mosques by county in our Character Council Region. The detail and a summary is included in the next three pages. Following the second report is a set of notes pertaining to this report which comments on our data gathering and analysis.
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