Polk County, Iowa

Denominational Groups, 2000

43,358	72,983	531	58,127	5,522	194,080
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^†
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	269	0.8
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	7	1,609	4.9
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	13	6,060	18.5
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	4	767	2.3
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	4,904	15.0
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	29	0.1
Catholic Church	Catholic	21	55,214	168.8
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	169	0.5
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	214	0.7
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	18	9,764	29.9
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	8	2,293	7.0
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	332	1.0
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	2	n.a.	n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	1	75	0.2
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	3	218	0.7
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	1	28	0.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	3	1,074	3.3
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	238	0.7
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,249	3.8
Church of the United Brethren in Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	26	0.1
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	9	704	2.2
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	6	2,550	7.8
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	498	1.5
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	26	21,683	66.3
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	209	0.6
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	114	0.4
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	2	290	0.9
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	4,200	12.8
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	2,600	8.0
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	1	273	0.8
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	6	2,164	6.6
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	75	0.2
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	10	5,717	17.5
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	266	0.8
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	13	n.a.	n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	77	0.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	16	8,436	25.8
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	17	0.1
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	4	2,298	7.0
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	431	1.3
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,340	4.1
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,469	4.5
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	360	1.1
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	6	5,130	15.7
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	38	18,988	58.0
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	210	0.6
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	188	0.6
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	268	164,819

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 327,140. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (164,819) include 50.4% 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.