Flathead County, Montana

Denominational Groups, 2000

10,718	6,088		9,932	3,052	44,681
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
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-108	-72.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	0	-133	-61.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+1,953	151.0%
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+52	21.0%
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	+50	104.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+3,878	64.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+12	2.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	-235	-41.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+180	158.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	+2	-243	-54.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-7	-41.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+29	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+1	+887	46.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-38	-6.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+109	71.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-259	-53.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+262	8.0%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+167	n.a.
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+789	72.0%
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+226	1507.0%
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+5	n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	-309	-37.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-26	-14.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+110	49.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+459	94.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	-21	-32.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-1	-313	-21.0%
	Totals:	12	+7,476	+35.9%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 51,966; in 2000 it was 74,471. The total population changed 25.8%. The adherent totals for 1980 (20,801) represent 40.0% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (29,790) include 40.0% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 27 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 27 groups had 20,801 adherents in 1980 and 28,277 adherents in 2000, for a change of 35.9%

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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