Total 1,192 Presbyterian 396 Lutheran 362 Reformed, including German Reformed 175 Brethren (German Baptist) 113 United Presbyterian 77 German Evangelical 48 Calvinist Methodist 12 Reformed Presbyterian 8 Slavic Lutheran 1
Total 2,721 Methodist Episcopal 1,793 United Brethren 521 Evangelical Association 129 Radical United Brethren 95 African Methodist Episcopal 40 Protestant Episcopal 39 United Evangelical 27 German Methodist Episcopal 27 Free Methodist 27 Wesleyan Methodist 27 Moravian 4 Primitive Methodist 1
Total 253 Catholic (Roman) 248 Greek Catholic 4 Russian Catholic 1
Total 293 Methodist Protestant 211 Holiness 25 Brethren (O. O., Prog. and River) 21 Latter Day Saints 6 Saints 5 Christian Missionary Alliance 4 Christian Science 3 International Bible Students Association 3 Federated 3 Missionary Church Association 2 Pietist 1 Wengerite 1 Seven Sleepers 1 Denomination not reported 7
There are in Ohio 1,343 townships (see Table I) which are wholly or partly made up of open country or villages of less than 2,500 inhabitants. (This number of inhabitants having been selected by the United States Census as marking the line between urban and rural, we have necessarily followed.) In the strictly rural townships and the rural sections of townships which are partly urban or suburban, there is altogether a population of more than two million persons, and 6,642 churches. These figures give us, on an average, 1,516 persons and five rural churches to a township, and 307 persons to a church.
Of townships which border on cities and towns of more than 2,500 persons, there are 173. In townships of this class there are 342,077 persons and 582 churches, while for each township there are 1,977 persons and three churches, or 587 persons to a church. It is presumable that many persons in these suburban townships attend the churches in the neighboring cities or large towns.
If we subtract the suburban townships from the 1,343 mentioned above, there remain 1,170 townships which are strictly rural. Unless otherwise stated all deductions have been drawn exclusively from these rural townships. The 1,170 strictly rural townships contain nearly 1,700,000 persons and 6,060 churches. They have, on an average, 1,448 persons and five churches to a township and 280 persons to a church.