Cassia County, Idaho

Denominational Groups, 2000

1,834	973		2,800	10,923	4,886
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^†
Catholic Church	Catholic	1	1,350	69.1
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	3	414	21.2
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	34	1.7
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	1	0	0.0
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	23	1.2
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	373	19.1
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	125	6.4
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	1	401	20.5
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	1	236	12.1
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	1	107	5.5
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	1	335	17.2
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	1	504	25.8
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	31	10,970	561.6
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	46	14,872

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 19,532. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (14,872) include 76.1% 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.