Los Angeles County, California

Denominational Groups, 2000

587,981	300,009	69,947	3,806,377	764,062	3,990,962
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	262	1,904,617	254.7
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	220	96,962	13.0
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	187	93,763	12.5
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	179	84,835	11.4
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	151	79,014	10.6
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	142	75,185	10.1
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	146	73,154	9.8
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	138	58,720	7.9
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	115	53,528	7.2
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	150	40,123	5.4
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	102	37,186	5.0
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	55	36,585	4.9
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	90	35,607	4.8
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	119	21,001	2.8
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	82	20,995	2.8
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	68	19,495	2.6
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	57	16,033	2.1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	64	15,189	2.0
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	23	14,848	2.0
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	15	12,710	1.7
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	44	12,207	1.6
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	30	11,523	1.5
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	12	7,703	1.0
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	7	7,458	1.0
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	21	6,383	0.9
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch	Orthodox	1	6,025	0.8
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	23	5,886	0.8
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	20	4,394	0.6
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	4	4,447	0.6
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	12	4,147	0.6
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	8	4,000	0.5
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	23	3,829	0.5
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	17	3,526	0.5
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	12	3,365	0.5
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	13	2,709	0.4
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	26	2,680	0.4
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	27	2,709	0.4
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	19	2,133	0.3
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	19	1,500	0.2
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,265	0.2
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,119	0.2
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	6	953	0.1
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	4	862	0.1
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	8	929	0.1
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	10	805	0.1
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	13	774	0.1
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	2	505	0.1
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	2	543	0.1
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church	Mainline Protestant	1	482	0.1
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	5	407	0.1
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	1	202	0.0
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	145	0.0
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	2	141	0.0
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarene)	Evangelical Protestant	3	152	0.0
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	186	0.0
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	4	178	0.0
Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	64	0.0
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	67	0.0
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	85	0.0
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	99	0.0
Fire Baptized Holiness Church, (Wesleyan), The	Evangelical Protestant	1	14	0.0
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	2,792	2,896,151

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 7,477,503. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (2,896,151) include 38.7% 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.