Cass County, North Dakota

Denominational Groups, 2000

8,470	41,959	16	17,829	1,623	53,241
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	36	34,022	276.3
Catholic Church	Catholic	15	17,829	144.8
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	11	2,981	24.2
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	5	2,981	24.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	11	2,504	20.3
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	2	2,017	16.4
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	1,300	10.6
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	4	967	7.9
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	2	620	5.0
Muslim Estimate	Other Theology	2	576	4.7
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	1	550	4.5
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	4	496	4.0
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	2	370	3.0
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	334	2.7
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	2	296	2.4
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	274	2.2
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	252	2.1
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	253	2.1
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	1	197	1.6
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	151	1.2
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	117	1.0
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	112	0.9
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	110	0.9
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	80	0.7
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	75	0.6
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	60	0.5
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	55	0.5
Bahá'í	Other Theology	1	52	0.4
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	50	0.4
Community of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	41	0.3
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	39	0.3
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	1	39	0.3
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	1	29	0.2
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	1	27	0.2
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	25	0.2
Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, The	Orthodox	1	16	0.1
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	123	69,897
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		77,340

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 102,874; in 2000 it was 123,138. The total population changed 19.7%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (69,897) include 56.8% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (77,340) include 62.8% of the population.

Source

^*The “Unadjusted Totals” come from the 1990 and 2000 data collected by representatives of the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). While quite comprehensive, this data excludes most of the historically African-American denominations and some other major groups. As a result, these numbers will be an underestimate of the total adherence rate, particularly in areas with a large African-American population. The 2000 data included 149 religious groups and the final results are published in Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Copyright © 2002, All rights reserved. The 1990 data included 132 groups and the final results are published in Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990 Copyright © 1990, All rights reserved. Published by Glenmary Research Center, 1312 Fifth Ave., North, Nashville, TN 37208. www.glenmary.org/grc [More information on the data collection]

^**The “Adjusted Totals” include all adherents in the denominations counted by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and estimates adherent totals for the historically African-American denominations and other religious groups not listed in the ASARB totals. An article by Roger Finke and Christopher P. Scheitle (2005) reviews how these estimates were computed.

^†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.

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