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	3,728	186.7
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	6	3,015	151.0
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	7	2,917	146.1
Catholic Church	Catholic	2	2,781	139.3
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	3	1,258	63.0
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	4	484	24.2
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	1	349	17.5
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	341	17.1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	336	16.8
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	190	9.5
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	1	58	2.9
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	1	33	1.7
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	41	15,490

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 19,965. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (15,490) include 77.6% 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.