Kit Carson County, Colorado

Denominational Groups, 2000

2,001	1,648		2,003		2,359
Evangelical Protestant	Mainline Protestant	Orthodox	Catholic	Other	Unclaimed

Congregational "adherents" include all full members, their children, and others who regularly attend services. The historically African American denominations are not included in the 2000 congregation and membership totals. Many are also missing in 1990 and most historically African American denominations are missing in the 1980 reports.
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Reports

Religious Bodies	Theology	Congregations	Adherents	Adherence Rate^†
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	1	315	44.1
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	320	44.8
Catholic Church	Catholic	2	1,484	207.8
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	50	7.0
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	1	311	43.6
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	207	29.0
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	1	93	13.0
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	117	16.4
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	1	30	4.2
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	96	13.5
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	107	15.0
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	28	3.9
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	2	455	63.7
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	2	475	66.5
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	16	2.2
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	14	2.0
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	1	278	38.9
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	1	133	18.6
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	3	824	115.4
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	27	5,353

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 7,140. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (5,353) include 75.0% of the total population in 1990.

Source

The 1990 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and include statistics for 132 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Martin B. Bradley, Norman M. Green, Jr., Dale E. Jones, Mac Lynn, and Lou McNeil supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1990, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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^†The adherence rate provides the number of adherents of a particular group per 1,000 population. For example, in 2000 the Episcopal Church had an adherence rate of approximately 8 (8.1) in Autauga County, Alabama. This means that 8 out of every 1,000 people in Autauga county are Episcopalian.