Church Demographics for 1850

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State	NO. OF BAPTIST CHURCHES, 1850	TOTAL VALUE OF BAPTIST CHURCH PROPERTY,	NO. OF EPISCOPAL CHURCHES, 1850	TOTAL VALUE OF EPISCOPAL CHURCH PROPERTY	NO. OF FRIENDS OR QUAKER CHURCHES, 1850	TOTAL VALUE OF FRIENDS OR QUAKER CHURCH	NO. OF JEWISH CHURCHES, 1850	TOTAL VALUE OF JEWISH CHURCH PROPERTY, 1	NO. OF LUTHERAN CHURCHES, 1850	TOTAL VALUE OF LUTHERAN CHURCH PROPERTY,	NO. OF METHODIST CHURCHES, 1850	TOTAL VALUE OF METHODIST CHURCH PROPERTY	NO. OF PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES, 1850	TOTAL VALUE OF PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH PROPE	NO. OF ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCHES, 1850	TOTAL VALUE OF ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH PRO	TOTAL NO. OF CHURCHES, 1850	TOTAL VALUE OF CHURCH PROPERTY, 1850
ALABAMA	579	227,497	17	76,300	M	M	M	M	1	250	577	276,279	162	222,775	5	300,000	1,375	1,131,616
ARKANSAS	114	21,870	2	4,250	M	M	M	M	M	M	168	27,070	52	28,275	7	6,650	362	89,315
CALIFORNIA	1	5,000	1	0	M	M	M	M	M	M	5	18,300	3	11,000	18	233,500	28	267,800
CONNECTICUT	114	406,634	101	773,875	5	7,150	2	0	M	M	185	351,550	17	88,700	12	97,500	734	3,555,194
DELAWARE	12	16,800	21	78,900	9	24,900	M	M	M	M	106	127,845	26	75,500	3	15,000	180	340,345
FLORIDA	56	25,640	10	37,800	M	M	M	M	M	M	87	55,260	16	31,500	5	13,600	177	165,400
GEORGIA	885	390,801	20	109,910	2	400	M	M	8	34,850	809	393,943	97	218,805	8	79,500	1,862	1,269,359
ILLINOIS	282	204,095	27	78,350	6	2,340	M	M	42	40,120	405	327,640	206	395,130	59	220,400	1,223	1,482,185
INDIANA	430	212,735	24	74,000	89	60,355	M	M	63	37,425	779	492,560	282	326,520	63	167,725	2,035	1,529,585
IOWA	23	19,550	5	5,000	5	6,300	M	M	5	6,950	76	43,475	38	28,350	18	28,250	207	177,425
KENTUCKY	803	570,505	19	112,150	M	M	1	13,000	5	21,300	530	460,755	224	491,303	48	336,910	1,845	2,252,448
LOUISIANA	77	30,470	15	57,900	M	M	1	20,000	M	M	125	236,500	18	149,300	55	1,045,650	307	1,782,470
MAINE	326	436,732	9	52,600	26	15,680	M	M	M	M	199	268,716	7	32,000	12	20,700	945	1,725,845
MARYLAND	45	130,710	133	610,877	26	114,050	M	M	40	247,950	479	837,665	56	376,300	65	1,161,532	909	3,947,884
MASSACHUSETTS	266	1,460,350	54	697,250	40	108,600	1	1,200	1	11,193	262	934,380	16	82,500	41	477,500	1,480	10,206,184
MICHIGAN	66	84,050	25	82,800	7	4,850	M	M	12	12,625	119	142,850	72	142,850	44	159,775	399	723,600
MINNESOTA	0	0	M	M	M	M	M	M	M	M	1	M	1	800	1	100	3	900
MISSISSIPPI	385	186,192	13	66,800	M	M	M	M	M	M	454	240,265	143	183,085	9	67,000	1,016	755,542
MISSOURI	300	154,480	11	135,600	M	M	1	7,000	21	34,560	250	280,245	125	285,970	65	497,575	880	1,561,610
NEW HAMPSHIRE	193	322,956	11	41,100	15	15,200	M	M	M	M	103	175,590	13	71,000	2	20,000	626	1,405,786
NEW JERSEY	108	334,600	52	525,409	52	207,100	M	M	7	28,512	312	688,350	149	1,225,250	23	133,385	814	3,680,936
NEW YORK	781	2,253,050	279	4,110,824	133	309,380	9	126,000	81	252,200	1,231	2,886,043	671	4,356,606	176	1,569,875	4,135	21,134,207
NORTH CAROLINA	613	205,090	51	112,340	31	8,075	M	M	49	29,525	786	292,608	151	172,530	4	5,900	1,796	905,753
OHIO	551	621,730	79	367,425	94	82,175	3	29,000	260	259,975	1,532	1,545,831	663	1,389,699	130	763,307	3,939	5,793,099
PENNSYLVANIA	321	811,395	136	1,483,700	142	662,287	8	45,700	498	1,642,656	907	1,726,038	778	2,585,250	140	1,084,204	3,596	11,586,315
RHODE ISLAND	106	367,800	26	248,500	18	57,800	1	1,000	M	M	23	102,900	M	M	7	72,500	231	1,254,400
SOUTH CAROLINA	413	293,863	72	616,950	1	500	3	83,700	41	109,500	484	341,168	136	483,175	14	78,315	1,182	2,172,246
TENNESSEE	648	271,899	17	85,300	4	1,300	M	M	12	2,600	867	381,711	363	367,081	4	45,000	2,021	1,216,101
TEXAS	82	23,090	5	15,100	M	M	M	M	M	M	173	58,195	46	20,070	13	79,700	339	206,930
VERMONT	102	159,475	26	81,500	7	5,500	M	M	M	M	140	227,783	11	17,500	8	42,200	599	1,216,125
VIRGINIA	650	688,818	173	529,450	15	18,825	1	4,000	50	52,445	1,026	725,003	240	571,165	17	126,100	2,386	2,856,376
WISCONSIN	49	52,500	19	45,750	M	M	M	M	20	14,650	110	64,130	40	35,800	64	66,685	365	353,900
	9,381	10,990,377	1,453	11,317,710	727	1,712,767	31	330,600	1,216	2,839,286	13,310	14,730,648	4,822	14,465,789	1,140	9,016,038	37,996	86,746,881

Sort 1850 Census Data - Useful for sorting by county. Many other data sets available as well.

Source: Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research. Study 00003: Historical Demographic, Economic, and Social Data: U.S., 1790-1970. Ann Arbor: ICPSR. More information is available from ICPSR.

[Annette Bethke]

Re: Church Demographics for 1850

You can also get additional stats such as slave population, economy, ethnicity and agriculture at http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/colle...ts/histcensus/ for several years including 1850 and 1860 for each state and then by county in each state.