San Joaquin County, California

Denominational Groups, 2000

45,155	16,709	903	138,485	13,832	348,514
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	20	96,735	201.3
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	110	0.2
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	23	6,673	13.9
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	298	0.6
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	113	0.2
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	7,613	15.8
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	3	284	0.6
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,594	3.3
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	4	372	0.8
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	5	2,463	5.1
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	3	310	0.6
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	4	226	0.5
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	2	139	0.3
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	3	135	0.3
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,620	3.4
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	21	2,155	4.5
Churches of God, General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	0	0.0
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	3	n.a.	n.a.
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	51	0.1
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	190	0.4
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	127	0.3
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	2	115	0.2
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	3	n.a.	n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,285	2.7
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	130	0.3
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	6	3,624	7.5
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	1	381	0.8
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	3	493	1.0
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	5	3,746	7.8
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	14	1,334	2.8
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	165	0.3
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	11	5,002	10.4
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	20	8,839	18.4
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	199	0.4
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	5	1,761	3.7
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	3	810	1.7
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	7	1,453	3.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	6	3,717	7.7
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	17	0.0
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	8	2,638	5.5
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	1,188	2.5
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	3	1,064	2.2
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	14	5,485	11.4
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses	Orthodox	0	112	0.2
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	3	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	24	9,615	20.0
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	2	1,600	3.3
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	333	0.7
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	270	176,314

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 480,628. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (176,314) include 36.7% 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.