County Membership Report

Maps & Reports > Select County > County Report

Alger County, Michigan

Denominational Groups, 2000

1,176 1,201   3,150 3 4,332
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.
[More information on the data sources]

Reports


^ Religious Bodies Theology Congregations Adherents Adherence Rate
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The Evangelical Protestant 1 150 16.3
Catholic Church Catholic 4 2,869 311.0
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 1 81 8.8
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 3 721 78.2
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 359 38.9
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 1 105 11.4
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 106 11.5
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 3 325 35.2
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 15 4,716  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 9,225. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (4,716) include 51.1% 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.