Burleigh County, North Dakota

Denominational Groups, 2000

7,755	19,875	60	25,240	1,069	15,417
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 Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	0	+33	8.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+978	162.0%
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+25	n.a.
Catholic Church	Catholic	-2	+9,993	66.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+43	108.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+79	105.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+58	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	+975	n.a.
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	+175	206.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+48	84.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-56	-10.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+230	264.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+2	+3,163	29.0%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	0	+50	1000.0%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+260	n.a.
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+516	32.0%
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	0	-32	-84.0%
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	+448	64.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	-588	-36.0%
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+295	90.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+116	36.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-153	-27.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+296	318.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	-5	-8.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	+1	+173	47.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	-428	-14.0%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+153	n.a.
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+5	2.0%
	Totals:	+8	+16,850	+45.5%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 54,811; in 2000 it was 69,416. The total population changed 15.4%. The adherent totals for 1980 (37,159) represent 67.8% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (53,999) include 77.8% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 28 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 28 groups had 37,025 adherents in 1980 and 53,875 adherents in 2000, for a change of 45.5%

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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