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Iowa City, IA MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

6,014 15,051   17,206 3,020 69,715
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 13 10,995 134.6
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 10 4,428 54.2
Old Order Amish Church Evangelical Protestant 7 1,064 13.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 3 2,898 35.5
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 3 533 6.5
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 3 2,207 27.0
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 2 148 1.8
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 2 777 9.5
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 2 1,106 13.5
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 125 1.5
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 1 150 1.8
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 272 3.3
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 133 1.6
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 309 3.8
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 1 281 3.4
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 1 283 3.5
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 1 183 2.2
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 1 340 4.2
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 1 326 4.0
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 1 403 4.9
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 67 0.8
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 1 82 1.0
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 1 126 1.5
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 47 0.6
Missionary Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 40 0.5
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 1 32 0.4
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 62 27,355  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 81,717. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (27,355) include 33.5% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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.