Eau Claire, WI MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

18,699	29,006	38	34,770	1,408	64,416
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	26	30,835	224.2
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	25	21,735	158.0
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	19	10,098	73.4
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	17	5,117	37.2
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	5	1,895	13.8
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,800	13.1
Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,513	11.0
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,320	9.6
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	5	1,217	8.9
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	976	7.1
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	4	699	5.1
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	600	4.4
American Association of Lutheran Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	550	4.0
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	2	519	3.8
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	3	509	3.7
Church of the Lutheran Confession	Evangelical Protestant	1	505	3.7
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	2	444	3.2
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	4	436	3.2
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	406	3.0
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	288	2.1
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	273	2.0
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	1	201	1.5
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	161	1.2
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	141	1.0
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	128	0.9
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	125	0.9
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	110	0.8
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	1	52	0.4
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	46	0.3
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	0	37	0.3
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	1	13	0.1
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	1	0	0.0
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	3	n.a.	n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	162	82,749

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 137,543. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (82,749) include 60.2% 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.