Grand Forks, ND-MN MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

7,519	29,773		24,961	1,018	34,207
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^†
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	55	25,668	263.3
Catholic Church	Catholic	15	24,961	256.1
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	11	2,503	25.7
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	9	1,893	19.4
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	8	1,487	15.3
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	12	1,471	15.1
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	675	6.9
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	2	605	6.2
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	5	569	5.8
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	430	4.4
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	1	382	3.9
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	339	3.5
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	282	2.9
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	4	266	2.7
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	232	2.4
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	231	2.4
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	2	226	2.3
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	1	180	1.9
Muslim Estimate	Other Theology	1	163	1.7
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	2	131	1.3
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	1	117	1.2
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	94	1.0
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	93	1.0
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	1	67	0.7
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	1	50	0.5
Bahá'í	Other Theology	1	46	0.5
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	2	38	0.4
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	1	36	0.4
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	24	0.3
Community of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	12	0.1
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	150	63,271
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		70,177

The population of these 2 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 103,181; in 2000 it was 97,478. The total population changed -5.5%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (63,271) include 64.9% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (70,177) include 72.0% of the population.

Source

^*The “Unadjusted Totals” come from the 1990 and 2000 data collected by representatives of the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). While quite comprehensive, this data excludes most of the historically African-American denominations and some other major groups. As a result, these numbers will be an underestimate of the total adherence rate, particularly in areas with a large African-American population. The 2000 data included 149 religious groups and the final results are published in Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Copyright © 2002, All rights reserved. The 1990 data included 132 groups and the final results are published in Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990 Copyright © 1990, All rights reserved. Published by Glenmary Research Center, 1312 Fifth Ave., North, Nashville, TN 37208. www.glenmary.org/grc [More information on the data collection]

^**The “Adjusted Totals” include all adherents in the denominations counted by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and estimates adherent totals for the historically African-American denominations and other religious groups not listed in the ASARB totals. An article by Roger Finke and Christopher P. Scheitle (2005) reviews how these estimates were computed.

^†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.

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