Top 15 Reporting Religious Bodies Grand Forks, ND-MN
Church, Christian, or Religious Body	Adherents (and rank)						Congregations
	in 2000			in 1990			in 2000	in 1990
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	25,668	(1)		26,515	(1)		55	57
Catholic Church, The	24,961	(2)		22,335	(2)		15	17
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	2,503	(3)		3,590	(3)		11	11
United Methodist Church, The	1,893	(4)		2,179	(5)		9	9
Presbyterian Church (USA)	1,487	(5)		2,295	(4)		8	9
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	1,471	(6)		1,510	(7)		12	12
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	675	(7)		470	(10)		2	1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	605	(8)		318	(16)		2	1
Assemblies of God	569	(9)		660	(8)		5	5
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	430	(10)		NA			2	NA
Episcopal Church	382	(11)		377	(14)		1	1
North American Baptist Conference	339	(12)		413	(13)		1	1
Salvation Army, The	282	(13)		77	(25)		1	1
Southern Baptist Convention	266	(14)		1,633	(6)		4	2
Seventh-day Adventist Church	232	(15)		291	(17)		2	2

Metropolitan Population, 2000 Census:		97,478
Percent of Population Claimed by Reporting Groups:		64.9%

National Average: 50.2% claimed

Reporting Groups (149 possible):	30	(33 of 133 in 1990)
Total Reported Adherents:	63,271	(66,163 in 1990)
Total Reported Congregations:	150	(160 in 1990)

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