Top 15 Reporting Religious Bodies Bismarck, ND
Church, Christian, or Religious Body	Adherents (and rank)						Congregations
	in 2000			in 1990			in 2000	in 1990
Catholic Church, The	38,751	(1)		28,518	(1)		18	20
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	17,518	(2)		17,279	(2)		18	17
United Methodist Church, The	3,075	(3)		3,575	(3)		9	10
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	2,836	(4)		2,257	(4)		6	6
Assemblies of God	1,739	(5)		1,292	(8)		6	4
Presbyterian Church (USA)	1,403	(6)		1,785	(6)		3	4
United Church of Christ	1,394	(7)		2,235	(5)		9	8
North American Baptist Conference	1,345	(8)		1,296	(7)		3	3
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	1,231	(9)		461	(14)		3	1
Southern Baptist Convention	886	(10)		585	(11)		5	3
Reformed Church in America	622	(11)		607	(10)		1	1
Church of the Nazarene	545	(12)		415	(16)		2	2
Episcopal Church	504	(13)		487	(13)		2	2
Seventh-day Adventist Church	480	(14)		567	(12)		3	4
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	480	(14)		643	(9)		2	3

Metropolitan Population, 2000 Census:		94,719
Percent of Population Claimed by Reporting Groups:		79.4%

National Average: 50.2% claimed

Reporting Groups (149 possible):	32	(33 of 133 in 1990)
Total Reported Adherents:	75,179	(64,041 in 1990)
Total Reported Congregations:	109	(108 in 1990)

The metro area included 2 counties (or equivalent) at the time of the 2000 census:
	Burleigh County, ND; Morton County, ND
	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.