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	% Change
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+90	150.0%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+203	118.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+846	96.8%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+111	79.3%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+145	69.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+24	66.7%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+51	55.4%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+26	37.7%
Catholic Church	Catholic	-1	+9,319	31.9%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+3	+2,382	11.7%
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+12	11.4%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	+51	11.1%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+27	7.6%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+39	4.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-257	-2.6%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	-105	-5.1%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-18	-6.8%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-1	-325	-17.3%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	-713	-18.2%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	-50	-33.3%
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	-41	-37.3%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-320	-51.4%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-58	-58.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	-1	-137	-62.6%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	0	-47	-66.2%
	Totals:	+6	+11,255	+15.5%

The population of these 2 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 116,401; in 2000 it was 126,838. The total population changed 9.0%. The adherent totals for 1990 (73,034) represent 62.7% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (84,514) include 66.6% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 25 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 25 groups had 72,424 adherents in 1990 and 83,679 adherents in 2000, for a change of 15.5%

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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