Carver County, Minnesota

Denominational Groups, 2000

13,466	9,642		19,891	19	27,187
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	1	36	0.8
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	40	0.8
Catholic Church	Catholic	9	11,349	236.9
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	308	6.4
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	540	11.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	8	5,577	116.4
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	651	13.6
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	12	10,060	210.0
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	3	789	16.5
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	1	198	4.1
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	5	1,318	27.5
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	3	282	5.9
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	183	3.8
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	47	31,331

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 47,915. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (31,331) include 65.4% 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.