Sacramento County, California

Denominational Groups, 2000

124,469	40,490	6,417	224,265	56,278	771,580
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	41	224,265	183.3
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	66	30,936	25.3
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	40	27,227	22.3
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	5	20,595	16.8
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	56	20,451	16.7
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	7	16,800	13.7
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	17	10,869	8.9
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	20	8,705	7.1
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	25	7,419	6.1
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	8	7,254	5.9
Muslim Estimate	Other Theology	9	6,637	5.4
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	17	6,438	5.3
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	12	4,878	4.0
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	11	4,639	3.8
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	9	4,376	3.6
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	18	4,328	3.5
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	15	3,650	3.0
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	12	3,510	2.9
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	21	3,044	2.5
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	2	2,994	2.5
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	2,908	2.4
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	4	2,600	2.1
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	7	2,532	2.1
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,862	1.5
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	3	1,804	1.5
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Vasiloupulis	Orthodox	1	1,750	1.4
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,594	1.3
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,546	1.3
Bahá'í	Other Theology	9	1,266	1.0
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,247	1.0
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,028	0.8
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	5	903	0.7
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	2	898	0.7
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	843	0.7
New Testament Association of Independent Baptist Churches and other Fundamental Baptist Associations/Fellowships	Evangelical Protestant	5	779	0.6
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	6	757	0.6
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	7	689	0.6
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	2	639	0.5
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	4	623	0.5
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	6	627	0.5
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Etchmiadzin	Orthodox	1	616	0.5
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	6	588	0.5
Serbian Orthodox Church in the USA	Orthodox	1	450	0.4
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	5	457	0.4
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	2	443	0.4
International Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	433	0.4
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	6	356	0.3
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	5	357	0.3
Vineyard USA	Evangelical Protestant	2	306	0.3
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	1	301	0.3
Community of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	278	0.2
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	4	246	0.2
Reformed Church in the United States	Evangelical Protestant	1	205	0.2
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	171	0.1
Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, The	Orthodox	1	146	0.1
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	3	141	0.1
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses	Orthodox	1	108	0.1
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	79	0.1
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	61	0.1
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	56	0.1
General Association of Regular Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	58	0.1
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	1	52	0.0
International Council of Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	33	0.0
Landmark Missionary Baptists, Independent Associations and Unaffiliated Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	40	0.0
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection	Evangelical Protestant	1	28	0.0
Hindu	Other Theology	4	n.a.	n.a.
Sikh	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
Reformed Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Buddhism	Other Theology	8	n.a.	n.a.
Calvary Chapel Fellowship Churches	Evangelical Protestant	5	n.a.	n.a.
Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Primitive Baptist Churches--Old Line	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	583	451,919
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		542,595

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 1,041,219; in 2000 it was 1,223,499. The total population changed 17.5%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (451,919) include 36.9% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (542,595) include 44.3% of the population.

Source

^*The “Unadjusted Totals” come from the 1990 and 2000 data collected by representatives of the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). While quite comprehensive, this data excludes most of the historically African-American denominations and some other major groups. As a result, these numbers will be an underestimate of the total adherence rate, particularly in areas with a large African-American population. The 2000 data included 149 religious groups and the final results are published in Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Copyright © 2002, All rights reserved. The 1990 data included 132 groups and the final results are published in Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990 Copyright © 1990, All rights reserved. Published by Glenmary Research Center, 1312 Fifth Ave., North, Nashville, TN 37208. www.glenmary.org [More information on the data collection]

^**The “Adjusted Totals” include all adherents in the denominations counted by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and estimates adherent totals for the historically African-American denominations and other religious groups not listed in the ASARB totals. An article by Roger Finke and Christopher P. Scheitle (2005) reviews how these estimates were computed.

^†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.

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