Williams County, North Dakota

Denominational Groups, 2000

3,367	7,939		4,161	219	4,075
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	18	7,626	360.9
Catholic Church	Catholic	5	3,451	163.3
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	863	40.8
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	2	726	34.4
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	2	530	25.1
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	112	5.3
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	1	158	7.5
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	26	1.2
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	195	9.2
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	310	14.7
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	1	102	4.8
American Association of Lutheran Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	1,461	69.2
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	69	3.3
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	135	6.4
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	282	13.4
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	1	282	13.4
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	44	2.1
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	1	509	24.1
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	1	282	13.4
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	46	17,163

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 21,129. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (17,163) include 81.2% 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.