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	% Change
Catholic Church	Catholic	-5	+3,647	26.9%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	+3	+1,423	29.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+460	12.1%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+2	+455	76.3%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+320	55.2%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+289	21.3%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+245	49.5%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+244	184.8%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	+138	6.0%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	+100	8.3%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	+94	40.3%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	+63	42.9%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+44	200.0%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	0	+24	70.6%
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	0	+20	60.6%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	+15	2.4%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+12	30.0%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	0	+3	9.4%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	0	0	0.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-3	-4.2%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	-24	-4.2%
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches	Evangelical Protestant	0	-26	-17.1%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	-29	-27.9%
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	-31	-16.5%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	-82	-21.6%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	-92	-34.8%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	0	-95	-38.2%
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-120	-62.8%
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	-3	-589	-39.7%
	Totals:	-3	+6,505	+19.2%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 96,119; in 2000 it was 111,006. The total population changed 15.5%. The adherent totals for 1990 (35,552) represent 37.0% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (41,291) include 37.2% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 29 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 29 groups had 33,808 adherents in 1990 and 40,313 adherents in 2000, for a change of 19.2%

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 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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