McIntosh County, North Dakota

Denominational Groups, 2000

788	2,296		672
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^†
Catholic Church	Catholic	3	528	131.3
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	40	10.0
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	17	4.2
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	101	25.1
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	4	642	159.7
Reformed Church in the United States	Evangelical Protestant	1	77	19.2
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	52	12.9
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	149	37.1
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	3	1,914	476.0
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	1	284	70.6
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	3	482	119.9
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	20	4,286

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 4,021. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (4,286) include 106.6% 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.