Platte County, Wyoming

Denominational Groups, 2000

1,291	1,143		1,482	209	4,682
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	3	828	101.7
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	3	237	29.1
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	3	350	43.0
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	2	227	27.9
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	2	319	39.2
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	91	11.2
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	464	57.0
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	1	23	2.8
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	107	13.1
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	1	121	14.9
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	310	38.1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	1	126	15.5
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	1	308	37.8
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	1	212	26.0
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	24	3,723

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 8,145. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (3,723) include 45.7% 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.