Payette County, Idaho

Denominational Groups, 2000

2,527	1,134		2,100	2,801	12,016
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^†
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	6	2,099	127.7
Catholic Church	Catholic	2	1,211	73.7
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	2	932	56.7
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	2	528	32.1
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	3	498	30.3
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	485	29.5
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	2	271	16.5
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	191	11.6
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	2	188	11.4
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	1	167	10.2
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	123	7.5
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	121	7.4
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	118	7.2
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	77	4.7
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	1	54	3.3
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite	Evangelical Protestant	1	24	1.5
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	33	7,087

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 16,434. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (7,087) include 43.1% 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.