Sioux City, IA-NE MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

14,325	27,549	704	25,435	1,262	54,855
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	21	23,255	202.2
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,243	10.8
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	85	0.7
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	638	5.6
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	125	1.1
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	150	1.3
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	4	583	5.1
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	202	1.8
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	3	439	3.8
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	42	0.4
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	101	0.9
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	58	0.5
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	650	5.7
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	1	58	0.5
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	13	6,775	58.9
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	29	0.3
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	246	2.1
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	237	2.1
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	2	546	4.8
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	160	1.4
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	204	1.8
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	3	543	4.7
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	3	487	4.2
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	3	1,277	11.1
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	18	12,103	105.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	9	3,601	31.3
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	696	6.1
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	4	1,187	10.3
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	23	9,776	85.0
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	2	936	8.1
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	2	630	5.5
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	111	1.0
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	139	67,173

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 115,018. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (67,173) include 58.4% 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.