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Grant County, Minnesota

Denominational Groups, 2000

718 4,390   624   557
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 14 3,867 619.1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 3 390 62.4
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 3 616 98.6
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 2 414 66.3
Catholic Church Catholic 2 587 94.0
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 1 57 9.1
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 1 81 13.0
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 1 28 4.5
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 27 6,040  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 6,246. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (6,040) include 96.7% 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.