Sweetwater County, Wyoming

Denominational Groups, 2000

3,670	1,519		10,095	5,903	16,426
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^†
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	17	6,339	163.3
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	7	2,157	55.6
Catholic Church	Catholic	5	8,307	214.0
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	4	222	5.7
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	3	596	15.4
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	157	4.0
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	2	175	4.5
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	2	207	5.3
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	2	607	15.6
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	2	604	15.6
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	2	829	21.4
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	140	3.6
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	1	352	9.1
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	373	9.6
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	1	101	2.6
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	1	19	0.5
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	82	2.1
Reformed Church in the United States	Evangelical Protestant	1	35	0.9
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	108	2.8
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	59	21,410

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 38,823. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (21,410) include 55.1% 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.