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	% Change
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	+79	263.3%
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	+131	65.2%
Catholic Church	Catholic	-1	+1,548	22.2%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+188	20.6%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+123	15.8%
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-243	-54.0%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	-6	-7.6%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	-40	-13.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	-16	-4.2%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-203	-7.3%
	Totals:	-1	+1,561	+12.1%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 18,901; in 2000 it was 19,680. The total population changed 4.1%. The adherent totals for 1990 (12,922) represent 68.4% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (14,733) include 74.9% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 10 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 10 groups had 12,922 adherents in 1990 and 14,483 adherents in 2000, for a change of 12.1%

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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