Milwaukee County, Wisconsin

Denominational Groups, 2000

88,164	65,129	8,191	261,485	23,253	493,942
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^†
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	82	0.1
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	17	7,172	7.5
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	20	6,982	7.3
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	3	278	0.3
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	65,187	68.0
Catholic Church	Catholic	109	304,275	317.2
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	1,359	1.4
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	3	400	0.4
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	1	136	0.1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	198	0.2
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	9	n.a.	n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	4	475	0.5
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	3	218	0.2
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	2	66	0.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	2	1,085	1.1
Church of the Lutheran Confession	Evangelical Protestant	1	71	0.1
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	2	93	0.1
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	11	1,765	1.8
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	1	372	0.4
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	32	0.0
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	17	6,082	6.3
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	607	0.6
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	53	36,981	38.6
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	224	0.2
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	2	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	3	5,650	5.9
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	825	0.9
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	2	67	0.1
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	15	18,755	19.6
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	655	0.7
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	48	39,731	41.4
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	5	3,963	4.1
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	141	0.2
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	19	6,443	6.7
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	78	0.1
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	3	973	1.0
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	483	0.5
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	1	38	0.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	8	2,243	2.3
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	21	5,626	5.9
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	2	553	0.6
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	16	6,657	6.9
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	26	11,356	11.8
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	358	0.4
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	48	31,002	32.3
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	499	569,737

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 959,275. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (569,737) include 59.4% 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.