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Janesville-Beloit, WI MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

16,491 29,389   31,037 1,244 74,146
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
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 0 -627 -24.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +2 +459 84.0%
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +165 n.a.
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant -1 +181 145.0%
Catholic Church Catholic -1 +812 3.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +65 42.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 0 -8 -4.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -1 +575 45.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant -1 +112 238.0%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +1 +53 n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +1 +581 160.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 0 -126 -54.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 -59 -46.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 -419 -46.0%
Evangelical Covenant Church, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -118 -44.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +3 +319 313.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant -1 -3,387 -17.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant +1 -219 -40.0%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 +44 338.0%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +1 -45 -29.0%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 0 +46 62.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 -2,118 -22.0%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 0 -1,108 -47.0%
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +41 71.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 0 -230 -10.0%
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA Evangelical Protestant +2 +121 n.a.
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 -108 -35.0%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -179 -22.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 0 -99 -21.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 0 -126 -29.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -1 -890 -40.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -7 -4,134 -44.0%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +87 n.a.
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 -137 -7.0%
  Totals: 0 -10,476 -11.9%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 139,420; in 2000 it was 152,307. The total population changed 9.2%. The adherent totals for 1980 (88,982) represent 63.8% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (78,161) include 51.3% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 34 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 34 groups had 87,768 adherents in 1980 and 77,292 adherents in 2000, for a change of -11.9%

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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