Dawson County, Nebraska

Denominational Groups, 2000

4,328	6,761		10,282	345	2,649
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 Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	2	308	15.5
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	2	185	9.3
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	203	10.2
Berean Fundamental Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	178	8.9
Catholic Church	Catholic	6	2,623	131.5
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	1	44	2.2
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	3	818	41.0
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	2	75	3.8
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	1	9	0.5
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	101	5.1
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	2	338	17.0
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	57	2.9
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	1	45	2.3
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	371	18.6
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	5	2,484	124.6
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	3	1,255	62.9
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	4	1,349	67.7
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	102	5.1
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	1	223	11.2
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	7	3,763	188.7
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	51	14,531

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 19,940. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (14,531) include 72.9% 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.