Santa Clara County, California

Denominational Groups, 2000

90,851	51,498	6,589	483,079	95,735	954,833
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^†
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	309	0.2
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	5	670	0.5
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	13	3,836	3.0
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	39	12,719	9.8
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,132	0.9
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	53	0.0
Catholic Church	Catholic	53	202,958	156.7
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	518	0.4
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	150	0.1
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	4	955	0.7
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,999	1.5
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	2	513	0.4
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	3	927	0.7
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	7	356	0.3
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	1	24	0.0
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	49	24,926	19.3
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	13	1,940	1.5
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	17	3,080	2.4
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	7	8,062	6.2
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	19	11,664	9.0
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	816	0.6
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	449	0.4
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	25	14,173	10.9
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	276	0.2
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	2	223	0.2
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	3	1,126	0.9
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	57	0.0
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	5	2,447	1.9
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	13	7,282	5.6
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	3	800	0.6
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	188	0.2
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	245	0.2
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	250	0.2
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	184	0.1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	25	11,712	9.0
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	17	0.0
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	328	0.3
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	974	0.8
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	16	5,837	4.5
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	28	15,561	12.0
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	4	916	0.7
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	11	5,165	4.0
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	31	16,676	12.9
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	200	0.2
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	3	979	0.8
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	443	363,672

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 1,295,071. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (363,672) include 28.1% 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.