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	% Change
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+420	221.0%
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-41	-8.0%
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	-43	-11.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+2,342	37.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-22	-31.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	+120	78.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	-99	n.a.
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	-7	-26.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	-1	-424	-43.0%
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+66	32.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+331	2.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+34	4.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	+14	4.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	-42	-9.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-2	-921	-40.0%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+115	n.a.
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-161	-4.0%
	Totals:	+-2	+1,682	+5.0%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 38,749; in 2000 it was 44,127. The total population changed 8.4%. The adherent totals for 1980 (33,894) represent 87.5% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (35,902) include 81.4% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 17 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 17 groups had 33,689 adherents in 1980 and 35,371 adherents in 2000, for a change of 5.0%

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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