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^†
Catholic Church	Catholic	55	483,079	287.1
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	289	0.2
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	54	12,113	7.2
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,134	0.7
Calvary Chapel Fellowship Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	12	2,695	1.6
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	12	3,243	1.9
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	5	704	0.4
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	2	214	0.1
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	7	484	0.3
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	2	104	0.1
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	14	1,908	1.1
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	15	2,416	1.4
Community of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	191	0.1
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	15	5,244	3.1
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	65	0.0
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	5	616	0.4
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	705	0.4
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	113	0.1
General Association of Regular Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	4	487	0.3
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	5	13,200	7.9
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	6	6,320	3.8
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,578	0.9
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	9	2,745	1.6
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	13	4,972	3.0
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,355	0.8
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	20	0.0
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	60	0.0
New Testament Association of Independent Baptist Churches and other Fundamental Baptist Associations/Fellowships	Evangelical Protestant	2	305	0.2
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	62	0.0
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	286	0.2
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	7	678	0.4
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	9	353	0.2
Primitive Baptist Churches--Old Line	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Reformed Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,040	0.6
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	19	5,794	3.4
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	54	16,814	10.0
Vineyard USA	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,380	0.8
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	3	1,164	0.7
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	13	1,935	1.2
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	4	779	0.5
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	22	10,102	6.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	27	10,254	6.1
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	40	0.0
International Council of Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	236	0.1
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	31	0.0
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	26	9,218	5.5
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	1,350	0.8
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	11	3,029	1.8
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	30	14,444	8.6
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	80	0.1
Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, The	Orthodox	2	902	0.5
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses	Orthodox	1	1,516	0.9
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Etchmiadzin	Orthodox	1	1,540	0.9
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	2	1,860	1.1
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	1	170	0.1
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	1	401	0.2
Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Serbian Orthodox Church in the USA	Orthodox	1	50	0.0
Serbian Orthodox Church in the USA (New Gracanica Metropolitanate)	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch	Orthodox	1	150	0.1
Bahá'í	Other Theology	14	1,160	0.7
Buddhism	Other Theology	32	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	55	20,172	12.0
Hindu	Other Theology	15	n.a.	n.a.
Jain	Other Theology	3	n.a.	n.a.
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	17	54,000	32.1
Muslim Estimate	Other Theology	10	19,206	11.4
Sikh	Other Theology	6	n.a.	n.a.
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	4	1,197	0.7
Zoroastrian	Other Theology	2	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	687	727,752
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		833,832

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 1,497,577; in 2000 it was 1,682,585. The total population changed 12.4%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (727,752) include 43.3% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (833,832) include 49.6% 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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