Carbon County, Wyoming

Denominational Groups, 2000

1,973	1,342		2,353	1,047	8,924
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^†
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	1	253	15.2
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	4	299	18.0
Catholic Church	Catholic	5	2,459	147.6
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	27	1.6
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	6	1,065	63.9
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	1	174	10.4
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	3	79	4.7
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	6	524	31.5
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	3	353	21.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	3	517	31.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	61	3.7
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	7	899	54.0
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	3	506	30.4
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	44	7,216

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 16,659. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (7,216) include 43.3% 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.