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Amador County, California

Denominational Groups, 2000

2,463 1,174 250 3,616 1,054 26,543
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
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 4 344 11.5
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 31 1.0
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 342 11.4
Catholic Church Catholic 7 3,055 101.7
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 1 n.a. n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 2 891 29.7
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 1 145 4.8
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 2 33 1.1
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 2 n.a. n.a.
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 1 170 5.7
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 1 231 7.7
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 1 325 10.8
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 1 25 0.8
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 11 0.4
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 175 5.8
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 6 719 23.9
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 3 651 21.7
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 35 7,148  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 30,039. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (7,148) include 23.8% 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.