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	% Change
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+315	203.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+613	75.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+466	n.a.
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+1	-1,484	-7.0%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+786	n.a.
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	+1	-913	-17.0%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	+1	+38	n.a.
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+103	368.0%
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	+1,076	236.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+390	84.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	+126	35.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	-137	-71.0%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+156	40.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+233	333.0%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	+123	456.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-446	-4.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-57	-31.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-63	-30.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	-171	-10.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-415	-38.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-341	-19.0%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-163	-66.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-1	-368	-28.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	-1	+60	84.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	-2	-219	-40.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	-3	+2,680	8.0%
	Totals:	6	+2,388	+3.0%

The population of these 2 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 130,932; in 2000 it was 148,337. The total population changed 7.8%. The adherent totals for 1980 (82,552) represent 63.0% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (83,921) include 56.6% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 26 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 26 groups had 80,402 adherents in 1980 and 82,790 adherents in 2000, for a change of 3.0%

Sources

The 2000 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and includes statistics for 149 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Dale E. Jones, Sherri Doty, Clifford Grammich, James E. Horsch, Richard Houseal, Mac Lynn, John P. Marcum, Kenneth M. Sanchagrin and Richard H. Taylor supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States, 2000, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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