Top 15 Reporting Religious Bodies Duluth-Superior, MN-WI
Church, Christian, or Religious Body	Adherents (and rank)						Congregations
	in 2000			in 1990			in 2000	in 1990
Catholic Church, The	62,654	(1)		56,972	(1)		43	52
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	27,822	(2)		32,693	(2)		54	57
United Methodist Church, The	5,550	(3)		7,544	(3)		24	26
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	4,130	(4)		5,081	(5)		16	14
Presbyterian Church (USA)	3,811	(5)		5,204	(4)		18	20
Assemblies of God	3,656	(6)		3,210	(7)		12	13
Baptist General Conference	2,885	(7)		3,392	(6)		18	18
Salvation Army, The	2,703	(8)		697	(13)		4	4
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	2,225	(9)		NA			11	NA
Episcopal Church	1,969	(10)		2,291	(8)		11	11
Serbian Orthodox Church in the USA	1,422	(11)		NA			3	NA
United Church of Christ	1,418	(12)		1,786	(9)		4	4
Wesleyan Church, The	1,120	(13)		918	(10)		1	1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	881	(14)		759	(12)		2	3
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	745	(15)		810	(11)		5	4

Metropolitan Population, 2000 Census:		243,815
Percent of Population Claimed by Reporting Groups:		52.7%

National Average: 50.2% claimed

Reporting Groups (149 possible):	43	(39 of 133 in 1990)
Total Reported Adherents:	128,607	(126,421 in 1990)
Total Reported Congregations:	289	(285 in 1990)

The metro area included 2 counties (or equivalent) at the time of the 2000 census:
	St. Louis County, MN; Douglas County, WI
	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.