Top 15 Reporting Religious Bodies Eau Claire, WI
Church, Christian, or Religious Body	Adherents (and rank)						Congregations
	in 2000			in 1990			in 2000	in 1990
Catholic Church, The	34,770	(1)		30,835	(1)		23	26
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	20,924	(2)		21,735	(2)		25	25
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	9,799	(3)		10,098	(3)		19	19
United Methodist Church, The	4,556	(4)		5,117	(4)		17	17
United Church of Christ	1,574	(5)		1,895	(5)		5	5
Baptist General Conference	1,532	(6)		509	(15)		3	3
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	1,474	(7)		1,800	(6)		5	6
Assemblies of God	1,428	(8)		1,320	(8)		7	7
Presbyterian Church (USA)	938	(9)		1,217	(9)		4	5
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	854	(10)		436	(18)		5	4
Wesleyan Church, The	786	(11)		273	(21)		1	1
Episcopal Church	689	(12)		699	(11)		4	4
Muslims Estimate	576	(13)		NA			2	NA
Conservative Baptist Association of America	551	(14)		NR			3	3
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	487	(15)		519	(14)		1	2

Metropolitan Population, 2000 Census:		148,337
Percent of Population Claimed by Reporting Groups:		56.6%

National Average: 50.2% claimed

Reporting Groups (149 possible):	33	(37 of 133 in 1990)
Total Reported Adherents:	83,921	(82,749 in 1990)
Total Reported Congregations:	153	(162 in 1990)

The metro area included 2 counties (or equivalent) at the time of the 2000 census:
	Chippewa County, WI; Eau Claire 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.