Swift County, Minnesota

Denominational Groups, 2000

2,001	4,847		2,745	125	2,238
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^†
Catholic Church	Catholic	7	3,249	251.5
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	85	6.6
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	297	23.0
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	214	16.6
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,704	131.9
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	133	10.3
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	2	58	4.5
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	12	5,459	422.5
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	1	136	10.5
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	2	501	38.8
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	1	203	15.7
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	37	12,039

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 12,920. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (12,039) include 93.2% 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.