Grundy County, Iowa

Denominational Groups, 2000

2,409	6,013		812		3,135
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^†
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	6	2,144	178.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	5	1,487	123.6
Catholic Church	Catholic	4	256	21.3
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	4	849	70.6
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	3	1,367	113.6
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	3	963	80.1
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	2	825	68.6
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	2	424	35.3
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	2	120	10.0
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	50	4.2
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	262	21.8
Church of the United Brethren in Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	10	0.8
Churches of God, General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	106	8.8
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	357	29.7
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	36	9,220

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 12,029. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (9,220) include 76.6% 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.