Lafayette is below average for church attendance

I grabbed this statistical information from this website, but I wanted to post to my blog here something that my wife and I have known for about a year now. Lafayette is below the national average for churchgoers.

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Top 15 Reporting Religious Bodies Lafayette, IN
Church, Christian, or Religious Body	Adherents (and rank)						Congregations
	in 2000			in 1990			in 2000	in 1990
Catholic Church, The	21,009	(1)		12,146	(1)		7	6
United Methodist Church, The	8,517	(2)		10,497	(2)		32	35
Presbyterian Church (USA)	5,361	(3)		6,034	(3)		13	14
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	3,988	(4)		1,880	(9)		14	7
Southern Baptist Convention	2,765	(5)		2,377	(8)		13	12
Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod	2,720	(6)		2,450	(7)		4	4
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the United States and Canada	2,137	(7)		3,071	(6)		3	3
General Association of Regular Baptist Churches	2,117	(8)		NA			4	NA
Independent, Charismatic Churches	2,000	(9)		0	()		1	0
American Baptist Churches in the USA	1,961	(10)		3,140	(5)		6	8
Assemblies of God	1,953	(11)		3,489	(4)		7	5
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	1,428	(12)		1,820	(10)		5	5
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	1,380	(13)		1,109	(13)		4	4
United Church of Christ	1,181	(14)		1,214	(12)		4	4
Wesleyan Church, The	1,172	(15)		1,441	(11)		7	9

Metropolitan Population, 2000 Census:		182,821
Percent of Population Claimed by Reporting Groups:		37.4%

National Average: 50.2% claimed

Reporting Groups (149 possible):	44	(43 of 133 in 1990)
Total Reported Adherents:	68,304	(58,013 in 1990)
Total Reported Congregations:	173	(163 in 1990)

The metro area included 2 counties (or equivalent) at the time of the 2000 census:
	Clinton County, IN; Tippecanoe County, IN
	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.