Des Moines, IA MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

49,552	91,368	531	67,213	6,294	241,064
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^†
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	66	27,973	71.2
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	34	24,158	61.5
Catholic Church	Catholic	32	62,764	159.7
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	28	12,201	31.1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	23	10,117	25.8
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	17	6,488	16.5
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	16	7,736	19.7
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	14	n.a.	n.a.
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	12	855	2.2
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	11	2,532	6.4
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,885	4.8
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	10	1,017	2.6
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	8	2,634	6.7
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,547	3.9
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	7	2,682	6.8
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	6	2,600	6.6
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	6	5,130	13.1
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,376	3.5
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	5	849	2.2
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	5	538	1.4
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	4	2,298	5.9
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	4	669	1.7
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	4	1,494	3.8
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	3	2,950	7.5
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	3	218	0.6
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	3	n.a.	n.a.
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	3	282	0.7
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	169	0.4
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	431	1.1
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	68	0.2
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	210	0.5
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	332	0.8
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	1	28	0.1
Church of the United Brethren in Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	26	0.1
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	1	75	0.2
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	360	0.9
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	77	0.2
Old Order River Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	64	0.2
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	209	0.5
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	266	0.7
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	17	0.0
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	75	0.2
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	1	273	0.7
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	4,200	10.7
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	188	0.5
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	114	0.3
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	269	0.7
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	4,904	12.5
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	376	195,348

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 392,928. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (195,348) include 49.7% 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.