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	% Change
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+25	12.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	+6	-3,222	-30.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+9	+2,183	35.0%
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+7	+2,078	314.0%
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	0	-476	-58.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	+14	+56,692	23.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+6	-1,807	-52.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	-423	-32.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-36	-3.0%
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+98	25.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-393	-58.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+533	464.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+92	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+6	-642	-4.0%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	0	-57	-64.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	-3	-546	-28.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+2	-973	-27.0%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	+5	-709	-37.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-3,779	-41.0%
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+1,382	155.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+1,099	154.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+4	-1,415	-16.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	0	-194	-62.0%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	0	-81	-23.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	+2	+4,272	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+1,750	n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+4,700	n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+7	+1,111	200.0%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+575	n.a.
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+2	+29,672	1049.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-2,478	-35.0%
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+85	193.0%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	+1	+43	n.a.
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+60	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	+1	+300	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	+2	+399	n.a.
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-5	-13.0%
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+509	n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	+5	-3,206	-24.0%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+418	674.0%
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+1	+190	138.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+1,009	200.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+1,556	48.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+33	+5,411	32.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	+1	+283	22.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	+4	-1,822	-35.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-1	-2,298	-19.0%
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	+2	+110	122.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+181	335.0%
	Totals:	+164	92,254	+24.0%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 1,105,379; in 2000 it was 1,443,741. The total population changed 12.9%. The adherent totals for 1980 (387,090) represent 35.0% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (504,563) include 34.9% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 49 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 49 groups had 384,445 adherents in 1980 and 476,699 adherents in 2000, for a change of 24.0%

Sources

The 2000 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and includes statistics for 149 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Dale E. Jones, Sherri Doty, Clifford Grammich, James E. Horsch, Richard Houseal, Mac Lynn, John P. Marcum, Kenneth M. Sanchagrin and Richard H. Taylor supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States, 2000, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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