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Alameda County, California

Denominational Groups, 2000

71,279 46,051 6,376 306,437 74,420 939,178
Evangelical Protestant Mainline Protestant Orthodox Catholic Other Unclaimed

Congregational "adherents" include all full members, their children, and others who regularly attend services. The historically African American denominations are not included in the 2000 congregation and membership totals. Many are also missing in 1990 and most historically African American denominations are missing in the 1980 reports.
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Reports


Religious Bodies Theology Congregations Adherents Adherence Rate
Catholic Church Catholic 55 249,745 225.9
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 45 17,113 15.5
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 34 17,339 15.7
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 32 11,833 10.7
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 29 6,261 5.7
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 27 13,223 12.0
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 24 10,816 9.8
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 22 3,545 3.2
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 21 9,149 8.3
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 21 9,211 8.3
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 17 5,258 4.8
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 16 7,094 6.4
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 13 1,969 1.8
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 10 3,260 3.0
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 9 1,311 1.2
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 8 1,061 1.0
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 8 1,200 1.1
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 7 3,499 3.2
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 6 1,899 1.7
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 6 2,828 2.6
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 5 1,317 1.2
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 5 675 0.6
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 4 115 0.1
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 3 349 0.3
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 3 662 0.6
Evangelical Covenant Church, The Evangelical Protestant 3 891 0.8
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 3 712 0.6
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 3 554 0.5
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 2 505 0.5
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 2 394 0.4
American Baptist Association, The Evangelical Protestant 2 201 0.2
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 2 899 0.8
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 2 315 0.3
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 2 825 0.8
Evangelical Methodist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 83 0.1
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 1 62 0.1
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 1 138 0.1
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of Evangelical Protestant 1 44 0.0
Apostolic Lutheran Church of America Evangelical Protestant 1 119 0.1
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 89 0.1
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 54 0.1
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 39 0.0
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant 1 90 0.1
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 1 219 0.2
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 1 125 0.1
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 462 387,090  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 1,105,379. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (387,090) include 35.0% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

The adherence rate provides the number of adherents of a particular group per 1,000 population. For example, in 2000 the Episcopal Church had an adherence rate of approximately 8 (8.1) in Autauga County, Alabama. This means that 8 out of every 1,000 people in Autauga County are Episcopalian.