Ottawa County, Kansas

Denominational Groups, 2000

255	1,622		473		3,813
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	9	1,326	222.1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	4	555	93.0
Catholic Church	Catholic	3	385	64.5
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	2	227	38.0
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	21	3.5
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	147	24.6
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	146	24.5
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	1	42	7.0
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	1	112	18.8
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	23	2,961

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 5,971. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (2,961) include 49.6% 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.