Top 15 Reporting Religious Bodies Billings, MT
Church, Christian, or Religious Body	Adherents (and rank)						Congregations
	in 2000			in 1990			in 2000	in 1990
Catholic Church, The	22,744	(1)		18,277	(1)		11	9
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	7,584	(2)		6,915	(2)		11	11
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	5,292	(3)		3,952	(3)		19	10
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	5,099	(4)		2,219	(9)		1	1
Southern Baptist Convention	3,685	(5)		2,640	(8)		15	12
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	3,098	(6)		3,086	(4)		7	6
United Methodist Church, The	3,072	(7)		2,702	(7)		7	5
United Church of Christ	2,595	(8)		2,777	(6)		7	7
Assemblies of God	1,197	(9)		3,053	(5)		6	6
Episcopal Church	1,043	(10)		1,183	(10)		4	4
Presbyterian Church (USA)	803	(11)		915	(12)		2	2
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the United States and Canada	542	(12)		613	(15)		2	2
Seventh-day Adventist Church	527	(13)		441	(17)		4	2
New Testament Association of Independent Baptist Churches and other Fundamental Bapti	509	(14)		NA			3	NA
American Baptist Churches in the USA	376	(15)		653	(13)		2	1

Metropolitan Population, 2000 Census:		129,352
Percent of Population Claimed by Reporting Groups:		48.6%

National Average: 50.2% claimed

Reporting Groups (149 possible):	43	(38 of 133 in 1990)
Total Reported Adherents:	62,831	(53,580 in 1990)
Total Reported Congregations:	139	(115 in 1990)

The metro area included 1 county (or equivalent) at the time of the 2000 census:
	Yellowstone County, MT
	The newly published book Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000 includes a CD that allows users to determine such lists for any selected group of counties.
Source:	Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000 Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990
	Both studies, copyrighted by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies, are published by the Glenmary Research Center, Nashville, Tenn. More information is available at www.glenmary.org/grc.