Salt Lake County, Utah

Denominational Groups, 2000

18,477	18,022	4,111	53,548	512,233	291,996
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^†
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	985	466,551	642.7
Catholic Church	Catholic	22	38,480	53.0
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	16	5,255	7.2
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	7	4,179	5.8
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	8	3,870	5.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	5	3,299	4.5
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	6	3,096	4.3
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	5	3,075	4.2
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	5	2,139	3.0
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	1	1,997	2.8
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	1,680	2.3
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	4	1,118	1.5
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	3	950	1.3
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	2	765	1.1
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	2	718	1.0
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	700	1.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	694	1.0
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	556	0.8
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	4	453	0.6
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	403	0.6
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	2	402	0.6
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	3	374	0.5
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	4	375	0.5
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	350	0.5
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	2	331	0.5
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	204	0.3
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	135	0.2
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	3	92	0.1
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	77	0.1
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	68	0.1
Christ Catholic Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	28	0.0
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	19	0.0
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean)	Evangelical Protestant	1	6	0.0
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	3	n.a.	n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	2	n.a.	n.a.
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	4	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	1,119	542,439

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 725,956. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (542,439) include 74.7% 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.