Hot Springs County, Wyoming

Denominational Groups, 2000

687	372		519	347	2,957
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	1	331	68.8
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	91	18.9
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	1	22	4.6
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	26	5.4
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	1	51	10.6
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	137	28.5
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	11	2.3
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	1	156	32.4
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	1	150	31.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	1	109	22.7
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	1	161	33.5
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	327	68.0
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	12	1,572

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 4,809. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (1,572) include 32.7% 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.