Winnebago County, Iowa

Denominational Groups, 2000

816	8,094		1,165	1	1,647
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	3	1,331	102.3
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	286	22.0
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America	Evangelical Protestant	3	229	17.6
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	219	16.8
Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	6	671	51.6
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	157	12.1
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	14	1.1
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	12	6,753	519.1
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	167	12.8
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	409	31.4
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	4	1,764	135.6
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	35	12,000

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 13,010. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (12,000) include 92.2% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

^†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.