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Waterloo-Cedar Falls, IA MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

17,347 31,402 132 25,505 1,426 52,200
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 Association of Lutheran Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 424 3.4
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 4 1,544 12.5
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 4 644 5.2
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 308 2.5
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 2,816 22.8
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio) Evangelical Protestant 1 223 1.8
Catholic Church Catholic 15 25,633 207.1
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 1 71 0.6
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 5 450 3.6
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 2 782 6.3
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 3 413 3.3
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 1 119 1.0
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 1 n.a. n.a.
Church of God General Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 18 0.2
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 2 692 5.6
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 2 615 5.0
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 2 610 4.9
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 2 243 2.0
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 2 700 5.7
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 1 60 0.5
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 18 13,432 108.5
Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 106 0.9
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 1 75 0.6
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 5 0.0
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America Evangelical Protestant 2 n.a. n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 1 131 1.1
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 1 200 1.6
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 8 5,155 41.6
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant 2 51 0.4
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 43 0.4
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 1 n.a. n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 10 4,403 35.6
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 3 868 7.0
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 3 383 3.1
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 199 1.6
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 4 1,059 8.6
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 210 1.7
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 3 1,554 12.6
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 18 8,531 68.9
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 6 3,454 27.9
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 138 76,224  
The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 123,798. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (76,224) include 61.6% 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.