Top 15 Reporting Religious Bodies Fargo-Moorhead, ND-MN
Church, Christian, or Religious Body	Adherents (and rank)						Congregations
	in 2000			in 1990			in 2000	in 1990
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	51,819	(1)		48,991	(1)		60	61
Catholic Church, The	27,722	(2)		28,547	(2)		22	23
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	4,580	(3)		4,775	(3)		9	9
United Methodist Church, The	3,669	(4)		3,856	(4)		13	14
Presbyterian Church (USA)	3,010	(5)		3,361	(5)		14	13
Assemblies of God	2,307	(6)		2,367	(7)		5	4
United Church of Christ	1,914	(7)		2,373	(6)		8	8
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	1,359	(8)		932	(8)		3	3
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	710	(9)		506	(12)		3	2
Episcopal Church	642	(10)		893	(10)		3	3
Muslims Estimate	576	(11)		NA			2	NA
Jewish Estimate	550	(12)		500	(13)		1	1
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	514	(13)		369	(14)		3	2
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	496	(14)		563	(11)		4	4
Conservative Baptist Association of America	334	(15)		NR			2	2

Metropolitan Population, 2000 Census:		174,367
Percent of Population Claimed by Reporting Groups:		59.2%

National Average: 50.2% claimed

Reporting Groups (149 possible):	39	(37 of 133 in 1990)
Total Reported Adherents:	103,195	(101,534 in 1990)
Total Reported Congregations:	183	(181 in 1990)

The metro area included 2 counties (or equivalent) at the time of the 2000 census:
	Clay County, MN; Cass 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.