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Aitkin County, Minnesota

Denominational Groups, 2000

1,713 6,252   2,814 3 4,519
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 % Change
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant +6 +3,287 161.0%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 0 +87 97.0%
Catholic Church Catholic -1 +1,356 93.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 -1 -2.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 -93 -8.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant -1 -5 -10.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +2 -39 -15.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 0 -13 -21.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -1 -42 -21.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 -12 -27.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 0 -438 -39.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 0 -49 -44.0%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant -1 -96 -50.0%
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -22 -73.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +1 +54 n.a.
  Totals: 5 +3,974 +58.4%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 13,404; in 2000 it was 15,301. The total population changed 23.1%. The adherent totals for 1980 (6,957) represent 51.9% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (10,782) include 70.5% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 15 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 15 groups had 6,805 adherents in 1980 and 10,779 adherents in 2000, for a change of 58.4%

Sources

The 2000 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and includes statistics for 149 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Dale E. Jones, Sherri Doty, Clifford Grammich, James E. Horsch, Richard Houseal, Mac Lynn, John P. Marcum, Kenneth M. Sanchagrin and Richard H. Taylor supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States, 2000, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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