Van Buren County, Iowa

Denominational Groups, 2000

921	1,839		281		4,768
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^†
Catholic Church	Catholic	1	330	43.0
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	65	8.5
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	3	436	56.8
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	1	60	7.8
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	28	3.7
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	54	7.0
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	450	58.6
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	1	37	4.8
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	4	297	38.7
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	1	63	8.2
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	12	1,698	221.2
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	29	3,518

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 7,676. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (3,518) include 45.8% 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.