Contra Costa County, California

Denominational Groups, 2000

74,449	40,234	2,035	204,070	48,191	579,837
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^†
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	18	5,004	6.2
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses	Orthodox	0	47	0.1
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	19	4,905	6.1
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	3	1,261	1.6
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	19,976	24.9
Catholic Church	Catholic	34	180,000	224.0
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,070	1.3
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	4	655	0.8
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	4	911	1.1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	3	520	0.7
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	320	0.4
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	9	n.a.	n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	2	64	0.1
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	3	427	0.5
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	2	78	0.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	46	19,636	24.4
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	6	2,215	2.8
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	21	2,861	3.6
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	4	n.a.	n.a.
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	17	6,236	7.8
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,476	1.8
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	16	6,826	8.5
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	3	262	0.3
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	72	0.1
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	2	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	600	0.8
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	7	2,127	2.7
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	304	0.4
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	4	21,000	26.1
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	14	4,535	5.6
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	53	0.1
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	5	601	0.8
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	7	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	7	958	1.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	15	12,979	16.2
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	2	72	0.1
Primitive Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	1	9	0.0
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	149	0.2
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	1	64	0.1
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	7	2,905	3.6
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	35	11,998	14.9
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	444	0.6
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	9	2,892	3.6
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	21	8,179	10.2
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	127	0.2
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	56	0.1
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	378	324,874

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 803,732. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (324,874) include 40.4% 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.