Walsh County, North Dakota

Denominational Groups, 2000

1,074	5,163		5,293		859
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^†
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	130	8.5
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	154	10.0
Catholic Church	Catholic	11	3,530	229.7
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite	Evangelical Protestant	1	57	3.7
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	1	15	1.0
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	1	44	2.9
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	20	5,276	343.2
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	234	15.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	5	628	40.9
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	3	285	18.5
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	46	10,353

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 15,371. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (10,353) include 67.4% 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.