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	% Change
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	+395	38.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	+1	+2,610	38.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	+133	148.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	-17	-8.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+135	34.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+1	+713	54.0%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-181	-60.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+105	24.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+59	15.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	+1	+20	n.a.
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+363	277.0%
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+1,250	n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+326	n.a.
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+165	n.a.
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+58	11.0%
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+217	n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	+511	189.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+35	8.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+3	-657	-33.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	+1	-130	-10.0%
	Totals:	+15	+6,110	+39.3%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 52,246; in 2000 it was 78,930. The total population changed 22.5%. The adherent totals for 1980 (15,548) represent 29.8% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (24,214) include 30.7% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 20 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 20 groups had 15,548 adherents in 1980 and 21,658 adherents in 2000, for a change of 39.3%

Sources

The 2000 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and includes statistics for 149 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Dale E. Jones, Sherri Doty, Clifford Grammich, James E. Horsch, Richard Houseal, Mac Lynn, John P. Marcum, Kenneth M. Sanchagrin and Richard H. Taylor supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States, 2000, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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