Top 15 Reporting Religious Bodies Casper, WY
Church, Christian, or Religious Body	Adherents (and rank)						Congregations
	in 2000			in 1990			in 2000	in 1990
Catholic Church, The	10,001	(1)		8,280	(1)		4	5
Southern Baptist Convention	3,326	(2)		4,316	(2)		9	8
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	3,141	(3)		2,967	(3)		7	6
United Methodist Church, The	2,063	(4)		2,510	(4)		3	3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	1,891	(5)		2,104	(5)		4	4
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	1,335	(6)		600	(11)		1	1
Episcopal Church	1,198	(7)		913	(8)		2	3
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	893	(8)		1,101	(7)		2	2
Presbyterian Church (USA)	845	(9)		1,290	(6)		3	3
Assemblies of God	824	(10)		629	(9)		2	3
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the United States and Canada	480	(11)		526	(12)		1	1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	466	(12)		619	(10)		4	4
American Baptist Churches in the USA	423	(13)		478	(13)		2	2
New Testament Association of Independent Baptist Churches and other Fundamental Bapti	379	(14)		NA			3	NA
Churches of Christ	349	(15)		349	(15)		3	3

Metropolitan Population, 2000 Census:		66,533
Percent of Population Claimed by Reporting Groups:		43.9%

National Average: 50.2% claimed

Reporting Groups (149 possible):	30	(31 of 133 in 1990)
Total Reported Adherents:	29,232	(27,941 in 1990)
Total Reported Congregations:	64	(66 in 1990)

The metro area included 1 county (or equivalent) at the time of the 2000 census:
	Natrona County, WY
	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.