Goodhue County, Minnesota

Denominational Groups, 2000

6,879	19,997		8,746	280	8,225
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^†
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	26	16,933	437.0
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	9	3,602	93.0
Catholic Church	Catholic	8	6,404	165.3
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	5	2,293	59.2
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	5	996	25.7
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	550	14.2
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	3	938	24.2
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	2	465	12.0
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	72	1.9
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	405	10.5
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	2	190	4.9
Church of the Lutheran Confession	Evangelical Protestant	1	147	3.8
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	1	99	2.6
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	27	0.7
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	154	4.0
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	1	352	9.1
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	58	1.5
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	209	5.4
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	74	33,894

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 38,749. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (33,894) include 87.5% 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.