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	56	320,523	250.6
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	60,635	47.4
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	12	30,500	23.8
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	65	29,762	23.3
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	47	19,420	15.2
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	27	12,071	9.4
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	28	12,052	9.4
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	33	10,567	8.3
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	31	10,475	8.2
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	25	8,890	7.0
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	21	6,563	5.1
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	8	5,800	4.5
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	14	5,490	4.3
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	17	5,374	4.2
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	12	4,888	3.8
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	21	3,876	3.0
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	4	3,600	2.8
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	23	2,975	2.3
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	12	2,312	1.8
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	5	1,368	1.1
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,085	0.9
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,035	0.8
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	9	1,010	0.8
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	899	0.7
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	7	792	0.6
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	7	665	0.5
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	5	658	0.5
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	3	608	0.5
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	4	491	0.4
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	7	424	0.3
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	6	428	0.3
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	2	389	0.3
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	8	349	0.3
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	2	280	0.2
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	282	0.2
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	266	0.2
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	2	177	0.1
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	148	0.1
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	2	120	0.1
Primitive Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	1	117	0.1
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	104	0.1
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	2	77	0.1
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	80	0.1
Church of the Lutheran Confession	Evangelical Protestant	1	72	0.1
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses	Orthodox	0	72	0.1
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	59	0.1
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	1	69	0.1
Apostolic Lutheran Church of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	59	0.1
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	1	48	0.0
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	35	0.0
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	2	37	0.0
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	22	0.0
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	27	0.0
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	12	n.a.	n.a.
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	2	n.a.	n.a.
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	11	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	590	568,125

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 1,279,182. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (568,125) include 44.4% of the total population in 1990.

Source

The 1990 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and include statistics for 132 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Martin B. Bradley, Norman M. Green, Jr., Dale E. Jones, Mac Lynn, and Lou McNeil supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1990, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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^†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.