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^†
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	12	4,867	453.8
Catholic Church	Catholic	7	2,608	243.2
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,477	137.7
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	2	445	41.5
Church of the Lutheran Confession	Evangelical Protestant	2	290	27.0
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	258	24.1
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	227	21.2
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	1	186	17.3
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	1	147	13.7
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	86	8.0
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	72	6.7
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	62	5.8
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	1	16	1.5
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	39	10,741

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 10,724. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (10,741) include 100.2% 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.