Alpena County, Michigan

Denominational Groups, 2000

4,712	5,537	225	13,650	265	6,925
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	6	10,233	334.4
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	5	3,468	113.3
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	3	2,216	72.4
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	2	1,000	32.7
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	5	840	27.5
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	1	422	13.8
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	352	11.5
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	2	283	9.3
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	1	218	7.1
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	164	5.4
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	150	4.9
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	131	4.3
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	129	4.2
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	105	3.4
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	1	71	2.3
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	1	68	2.2
Church of the United Brethren in Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	63	2.1
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	1	54	1.8
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	1	44	1.4
Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	35	1.1
American Association of Lutheran Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	34	1.1
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	24	0.8
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	1	0	0.0
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	0	0.0
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	42	20,104

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 30,605. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (20,104) include 65.7% 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.