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	% Change
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+1,049	418.0%
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+147	140.0%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	+300	120.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+1,017	102.0%
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	+76	38.0%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+73	28.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+2	+7,411	28.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+39	15.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+10	15.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+144	5.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	+20	2.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+3	2.0%
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-3	-3.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	+1	-1,216	-6.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-62	-9.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-1	-289	-9.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	+2	-427	-15.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-9	-19.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	-178	-32.0%
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	-2	-320	-39.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	0	-153	-44.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	-51	-46.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-244	-49.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-48	-64.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	0	-50	-67.0%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	+1	+55	n.a.
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+29	n.a.
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+50	n.a.
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+1	+117	n.a.
	Totals:	9	+7,490	+12.2%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 88,247; in 2000 it was 123,138. The total population changed 19.7%. The adherent totals for 1980 (61,638) represent 69.8% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (69,897) include 56.8% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 29 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 29 groups had 61,491 adherents in 1980 and 68,981 adherents in 2000, for a change of 12.2%

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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