Taylor County, Wisconsin

Denominational Groups, 2000

4,284	1,806	107	8,535	1	4,947
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^†
Catholic Church	Catholic	10	6,987	369.7
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	5	2,796	147.9
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	3	912	48.3
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	3	778	41.2
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	450	23.8
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	2	381	20.2
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	1	308	16.3
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	201	10.6
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	1	79	4.2
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	30	1.6
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	32	12,922

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 18,901. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (12,922) include 68.4% 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.