County Membership Report

Maps & Reports > Select County > County Report

Dane County, Wisconsin

Denominational Groups, 2000

22,292 72,191 1,375 119,246 8,820 202,602
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.
[More information on the data sources]

Reports


Religious Bodies Theology Congregations Adherents % Change
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant -1 -286 -20.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +3 +823 144.0%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant +1 +90 200.0%
Catholic Church Catholic +1 +34,671 41.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +3 +213 n.a.
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -2 -140 -33.0%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant +1 +144 52.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 0 -112 -91.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 0 +12 92.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +1 +19 2.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +1 -62 -24.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +2 +49 38.0%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant -1 -274 -58.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant +3 -396 -18.0%
Evangelical Covenant Church, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +51 54.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +1,529 323.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant +3 +2,729 6.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant +1 -90 -54.0%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant +1 -66 -33.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +1 +1,251 n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +1 +100 n.a.
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +3 +3,183 242.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant +2 -237 -5.0%
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province Mainline Protestant 0 -580 -45.0%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 0 -267 -61.0%
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant +1 +289 n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant +1 -223 -5.0%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +473 175.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 0 -215 -27.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 0 -625 -71.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology +1 +927 115.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 0 -710 -11.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant +1 -1,105 -11.0%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +200 n.a.
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant +4 +767 22.0%
  Totals: +34 +42,132 +24.2%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 323,545; in 2000 it was 426,526. The total population changed 16.2%. The adherent totals for 1980 (176,595) represent 54.6% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (223,924) include 52.5% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 35 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 35 groups had 173,768 adherents in 1980 and 215,900 adherents in 2000, for a change of 24.2%

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.

[More information on these data sources]