Polk County, Wisconsin

Denominational Groups, 2000

5,649	13,314		4,918	4	17,434
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
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-54	-31.4%
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-105	-38.9%
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	+48	9.6%
Catholic Church	Catholic	-2	+2,125	76.1%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+120	22.4%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	-32	-16.9%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	0	0.0%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	0	n.a.	n.a.
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	+30	103.4%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+88	26.1%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+1,149	11.0%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	0	+2	2.4%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+30	3.6%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	+1	0.7%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-3	-1.6%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	+89	27.1%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	-374	-24.6%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-462	-21.0%
	Totals:	+1	+2,652	+12.9%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 34,773; in 2000 it was 41,319. The total population changed 18.8%. The adherent totals for 1990 (20,810) represent 59.8% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (23,885) include 57.8% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 17 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 17 groups had 20,550 adherents in 1990 and 23,202 adherents in 2000, for a change of 12.9%

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 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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