Allamakee County, Iowa

Denominational Groups, 2000

564	6,337		6,711	304	759
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^†
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	96	6.9
Catholic Church	Catholic	11	5,236	377.9
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	7	3,458	249.6
Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	2	87	6.3
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	7	1,484	107.1
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	74	5.3
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	4	1,126	81.3
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	5	695	50.2
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	39	12,256

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 13,855. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (12,256) include 88.5% 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.