Sutter County, California

Denominational Groups, 2000

10,046	2,144		9,410	2,614	54,716
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^†
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	6	3,591	55.8
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,921	29.8
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	4	1,750	27.2
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	4	1,250	19.4
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	3	361	5.6
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	3	582	9.0
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	325	5.1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	123	1.9
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	2	18	0.3
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	1	54	0.8
American Association of Lutheran Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	126	2.0
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	1	100	1.6
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	300	4.7
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	1	144	2.2
Catholic Church	Catholic	1	7,600	118.0
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	122	1.9
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	167	2.6
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	535	8.3
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	1	492	7.6
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	656	10.2
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	49	0.8
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	289	4.5
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	44	20,555

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 64,415. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (20,555) include 31.9% 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.