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Eau Claire County, Wisconsin

Denominational Groups, 2000

13,601 20,954   18,175 1,395 39,017
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
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 2 444 5.2
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 4 936 11.0
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 2 441 5.2
Catholic Church Catholic 12 14,869 174.6
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 1 342 4.0
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 181 2.1
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 1 n.a. n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 2 519 6.1
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America Evangelical Protestant 1 976 11.5
Church of the Lutheran Confession Evangelical Protestant 1 505 5.9
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 1 201 2.4
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 2 110 1.3
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 1 n.a. n.a.
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 2 564 6.6
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 2 110 1.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 13 16,565 194.5
Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 3 1,330 15.6
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 37 0.4
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 1 0 0.0
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 14 7,544 88.6
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant 1 46 0.5
Old Order Amish Church Evangelical Protestant 4 600 7.0
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 2 672 7.9
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 128 1.5
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 116 1.4
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 141 1.7
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 3 1,620 19.0
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 8 2,918 34.3
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 273 3.2
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 509 6.0
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 89 52,697  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 85,183. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (52,697) include 61.9% 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.