Polk County, Minnesota

Denominational Groups, 2000

3,352	11,141		8,386	120	8,370
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^†
American Association of Lutheran Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	47	1.5
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	3	265	8.2
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,038	31.9
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	267	8.2
Catholic Church	Catholic	9	7,685	236.5
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	103	3.2
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	2	55	1.7
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	318	9.8
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	18	0.6
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	44	1.4
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	33	10,869	334.5
Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	5	462	14.2
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	7	2,292	70.5
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	4	1,089	33.5
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	53	1.6
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	4	617	19.0
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	85	25,222

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 32,498. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (25,222) include 77.6% 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.