Top 15 Reporting Religious Bodies Boise City, ID
Church, Christian, or Religious Body	Adherents (and rank)						Congregations
	in 2000			in 1990			in 2000	in 1990
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	64,129	(1)		43,938	(1)		153	95
Catholic Church, The	51,097	(2)		24,434	(2)		11	13
Church of the Nazarene	8,476	(3)		7,146	(4)		19	20
United Methodist Church, The	7,238	(4)		7,577	(3)		13	14
Assemblies of God	5,825	(5)		4,464	(6)		19	13
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	5,500	(6)		786	(19)		3	2
Southern Baptist Convention	4,069	(7)		3,506	(8)		13	8
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	3,689	(8)		2,857	(11)		7	7
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	3,569	(9)		5,696	(5)		8	16
Presbyterian Church (USA)	3,327	(10)		3,575	(7)		8	8
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	2,795	(11)		2,741	(12)		6	7
Episcopal Church	2,736	(12)		2,407	(14)		6	6
Seventh-day Adventist Church	2,696	(13)		3,138	(10)		14	11
Vineyard USA	2,562	(14)		NA			3	NA
Independent, Charismatic Churches	2,500	(15)		1,050	(17)		1	2

Metropolitan Population, 2000 Census:		432,345
Percent of Population Claimed by Reporting Groups:		43.6%

National Average: 50.2% claimed

Reporting Groups (149 possible):	53	(42 of 133 in 1990)
Total Reported Adherents:	188,303	(127,474 in 1990)
Total Reported Congregations:	404	(311 in 1990)

The metro area included 2 counties (or equivalent) at the time of the 2000 census:
	Ada County, ID; Canyon County, ID
	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.