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	272	3,077,114	347.2
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	271	103,286	11.7
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	231	55,107	6.2
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	231	65,280	7.4
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	226	128,895	14.5
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	202	76,010	8.6
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	186	70,590	8.0
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	170	64,168	7.2
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	145	501,700	56.6
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	132	43,542	4.9
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	123	54,514	6.2
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	114	24,257	2.7
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	102	29,917	3.4
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	93	30,684	3.5
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	85	50,674	5.7
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	75	n.a.	n.a.
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	64	15,767	1.8
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	62	14,878	1.7
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	58	15,589	1.8
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	47	6,214	0.7
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	39	n.a.	n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	31	7,038	0.8
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	30	34,565	3.9
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	30	5,357	0.6
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	30	3,401	0.4
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	29	16,502	1.9
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	29	2,060	0.2
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	25	3,414	0.4
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	24	3,332	0.4
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	23	6,693	0.8
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	22	32,970	3.7
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	21	n.a.	n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	20	1,432	0.2
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	20	973	0.1
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	18	5,591	0.6
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	17	2,125	0.2
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	17	2,691	0.3
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	17	1,464	0.2
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	16	2,589	0.3
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	15	3,127	0.4
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	14	3,584	0.4
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	13	7,936	0.9
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	13	1,081	0.1
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	12	3,147	0.4
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	11	n.a.	n.a.
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,750	0.2
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	8	n.a.	n.a.
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	7	6,766	0.8
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	7	405	0.1
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	7	7,458	0.8
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	6	443	0.1
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	6	416	0.1
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	5	304	0.0
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	4	n.a.	n.a.
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	295	0.0
American Association of Lutheran Churches	Evangelical Protestant	3	621	0.1
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch	Orthodox	3	9,000	1.0
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	3	n.a.	n.a.
Church of the United Brethren in Christ	Evangelical Protestant	3	107	0.0
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	179	0.0
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	3	496	0.1
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	198	0.0
Fire Baptized Holiness Church, (Wesleyan), The	Evangelical Protestant	2	18	0.0
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	2	340	0.0
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	86	0.0
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	2	102	0.0
Reformed Episcopal Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	40	0.0
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	2	388	0.0
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	2	88	0.0
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarene)	Evangelical Protestant	2	257	0.0
Apostolic Lutheran Church of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	30	0.0
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	85	0.0
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	1	66	0.0
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses	Orthodox	1	387	0.0
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	63	0.0
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	58	0.0
Reformed Church in the United States	Evangelical Protestant	1	28	0.0
Netherlands Reformed Congregations	Evangelical Protestant	1	27	0.0
Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	65	0.0
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	495	0.1
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church	Mainline Protestant	1	431	0.1
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	268,605	30.3
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	3,536	4,879,355

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 8,863,164. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (4,879,355) include 55.1% 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.