Twin Falls County, Idaho

Denominational Groups, 2000

7,973	5,612		5,740	12,673	32,286
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	% Change
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+2,115	58.3%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+5	+1,685	15.4%
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+599	82.1%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+213	31.1%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	+180	22.4%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	0	+145	46.6%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	0	+132	400.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+124	185.1%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	-1	+114	27.9%
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+86	42.2%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+49	23.8%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	+43	34.4%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	+30	3.0%
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	0	+13	14.4%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-6	-5.4%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-11	-3.6%
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-19	-30.6%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-28	-7.8%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	0	-32	-58.2%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-90	-81.8%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-119	-6.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	-158	-20.9%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	-580	-28.4%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	0	-677	-35.4%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	0	n.a.	n.a.
	Totals:	+10	+3,808	+14.2%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 53,580; in 2000 it was 64,284. The total population changed 20.0%. The adherent totals for 1990 (26,979) represent 50.4% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (31,998) include 49.8% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 24 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 24 groups had 26,895 adherents in 1990 and 30,703 adherents in 2000, for a change of 14.2%

Sources

The 2000 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and includes statistics for 149 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Dale E. Jones, Sherri Doty, Clifford Grammich, James E. Horsch, Richard Houseal, Mac Lynn, John P. Marcum, Kenneth M. Sanchagrin and Richard H. Taylor supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States, 2000, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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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