Outagamie County, Wisconsin

Denominational Groups, 2000

29,851	24,094	795	83,700	1,724	20,807
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	% Change
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	0	-31	-16.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	+1,411	153.0%
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+250	385.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	-3	+21,809	35.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+1,943	1262.0%
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+184	1150.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+2	+705	247.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	-122	-68.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+40	28.0%
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	-22	-16.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	+4	1.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+310	n.a.
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+2	+1,668	13.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	+1	+120	n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+55	n.a.
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	+166	124.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+2,922	61.0%
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	0	-1	0.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	-20	-2.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+118	70.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	0	+173	94.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+334	954.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	+416	12.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	-268	-6.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+670	5.0%
	Totals:	+11	+32,834	+31.4%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 128,799; in 2000 it was 160,971. The total population changed 14.6%. The adherent totals for 1980 (105,042) represent 81.6% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (140,164) include 87.1% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 25 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 25 groups had 104,691 adherents in 1980 and 137,525 adherents in 2000, for a change of 31.4%

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.

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