Story County, Iowa

Denominational Groups, 2000

8,020	21,616		9,280	1,849	39,216
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	% Change
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	0	-67	-25.1%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+164	31.7%
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+3,686	65.9%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	-173	-12.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+188	75.2%
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+182	101.1%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	0	+14	53.8%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+2	+194	44.4%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	0	+3	17.6%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	-8	-4.8%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-9	-11.4%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-1,098	-72.7%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+616	88.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+582	5.4%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	0	+11	23.9%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	+500	250.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-57	-3.4%
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	0	-1	-10.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	-282	-15.9%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-52	-19.7%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+2	-46	-4.5%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	-38	-11.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	+13	3.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	-83	-1.3%
	Totals:	+8	+4,239	+12.4%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 74,252; in 2000 it was 79,981. The total population changed 7.7%. The adherent totals for 1990 (35,002) represent 47.1% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (40,765) include 51.0% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 24 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 24 groups had 34,209 adherents in 1990 and 38,448 adherents in 2000, for a change of 12.4%

Sources

The 2000 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and includes statistics for 149 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Dale E. Jones, Sherri Doty, Clifford Grammich, James E. Horsch, Richard Houseal, Mac Lynn, John P. Marcum, Kenneth M. Sanchagrin and Richard H. Taylor supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States, 2000, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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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