Wood County, Wisconsin

Denominational Groups, 2000

16,990	9,723		30,265	494	18,083
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
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	0	+21	67.7%
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	+22	36.7%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	+358	34.8%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	+117	33.6%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+110	27.8%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+35	24.1%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+627	17.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	-3	+2,955	10.8%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+39	1.8%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	0	0.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-256	-2.3%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-1	-114	-6.7%
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	-7	-9.1%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	-378	-17.6%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-48	-19.8%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-108	-23.1%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	-233	-26.9%
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	0	-337	-30.5%
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	0	-46	-35.7%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	-15	-36.6%
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-149	-39.3%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-100	-40.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	-14	-48.3%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	0	-131	-63.6%
	Totals:	-2	+2,348	+4.3%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 73,605; in 2000 it was 75,555. The total population changed 2.6%. The adherent totals for 1990 (54,175) represent 73.6% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (57,472) include 76.1% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 24 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 24 groups had 54,175 adherents in 1990 and 56,523 adherents in 2000, for a change of 4.3%

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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