Gladwin County, Michigan

Denominational Groups, 2000

3,086	1,620		1,899	3	19,415
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^†
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	2	240	11.0
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	62	2.8
Catholic Church	Catholic	2	1,824	83.3
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	1	62	2.8
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	123	5.6
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	2	432	19.7
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	124	5.7
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	1	165	7.5
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	2	478	21.8
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	2	170	7.8
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	653	29.8
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	42	1.9
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	311	14.2
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	600	27.4
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	1	107	4.9
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	109	5.0
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	5	795	36.3
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	154	7.0
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	31	6,451

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 21,896. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (6,451) include 29.5% 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.