Buena Vista County, Iowa

Denominational Groups, 2000

3,890	7,235		2,518	12	6,756
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^†
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	10	3,869	186.2
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	7	3,526	169.7
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	7	3,176	152.9
Catholic Church	Catholic	2	2,940	141.5
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	3	1,545	74.4
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	3	401	19.3
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	1	372	17.9
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	358	17.2
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	2	254	12.2
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	208	10.0
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	183	8.8
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	1	47	2.3
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	1	14	0.7
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	44	16,893

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 20,774. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (16,893) include 81.3% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

^†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.