Membership Trends
In 2006, the American Baptist Churches USA reported 1,371,278 members in 5,659 churches. Membership remained fairly steady during the 20th century. In 1925, there were just over 1.4 million members. Membership peaked in the early 1980s at around 1.6 million. Congregations are concentrated in the Midwest and Northeast United States.
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