Nez Perce County, Idaho

Denominational Groups, 2000

5,093	3,006		4,656	1,855	22,800
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^†
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	41	1.2
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	1	113	3.4
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	3	1,490	44.1
Catholic Church	Catholic	4	2,947	87.3
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	155	4.6
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	147	4.4
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	1	40	1.2
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	1	31	0.9
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	3	1,602	47.5
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	2	853	25.3
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	145	4.3
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	1	314	9.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	4	1,230	36.4
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	500	14.8
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	144	4.3
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	77	2.3
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	3	415	12.3
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	78	2.3
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	300	8.9
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	1	531	15.7
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	2	0.1
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	1	91	2.7
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	3	938	27.8
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	40	12,184

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 33,754. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (12,184) include 36.1% 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.