Benson County, North Dakota

Denominational Groups, 2000

479	1,989		5,513	18
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^†
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	280	35.3
Catholic Church	Catholic	11	3,219	405.2
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	67	8.4
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	59	7.4
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	2	91	11.5
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	66	8.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	18	3,118	392.5
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	2	109	13.7
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	38	7,009

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 7,944. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (7,009) include 88.2% 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.