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La Crosse, WI-MN MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

15,255 29,933 86 38,540 700 42,324
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
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 2 219 1.9
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 2 210 1.8
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The Evangelical Protestant 1 105 0.9
Catholic Church Catholic 18 29,221 251.0
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 1 265 2.3
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 90 0.8
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 3 357 3.1
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 1 116 1.0
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 1 n.a. n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 2 460 4.0
Church of the Lutheran Confession Evangelical Protestant 1 65 0.6
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 2 100 0.9
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 69 0.6
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 1 623 5.4
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 4 874 7.5
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 24 20,440 175.6
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 14 0.1
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 1 150 1.3
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 2 976 8.4
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 110 1.0
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 8 1,881 16.2
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 1 60 0.5
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 140 1.2
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 92 0.8
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 2 71 0.6
The Protestant Conference (Lutheran) Evangelical Protestant 1 325 2.8
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 36 0.3
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 5 2,066 17.8
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 10 3,922 33.7
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 172 1.5
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 14 9,805 84.2
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 115 73,034  
The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 116,401. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (73,034) include 62.7% of the total population in 1990.

Source

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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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.