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Yolo County, California

Denominational Groups, 2000

7,985 5,796 224 33,691 6,202 114,762
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
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 0 +31 62.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 0 +430 36.6%
Catholic Church Catholic -1 +10,161 43.2%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +13 26.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 0 +138 38.3%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant +1 +66 103.1%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +2 +181 489.2%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 0 +7 17.9%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +1 +170 6.1%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant -1 -331 -67.7%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +2 +29 9.5%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 0 n.a. n.a.
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 +264 38.7%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 -162 -12.8%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 -47 -54.0%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +1 -23 -8.8%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +1 +1,059 88.9%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 -195 -25.6%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant 0 +23 6.9%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 0 -127 -6.9%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +1 +48 13.2%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +2 -245 -17.9%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 +2 0.6%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 0 -84 -15.1%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 0 -11 -1.2%
  Totals: +9 +11,397 +29.3%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 141,092; in 2000 it was 168,660. The total population changed 19.5%. The adherent totals for 1990 (40,283) represent 28.6% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (53,898) include 32.0% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 24 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 24 groups had 38,891 adherents in 1990 and 50,288 adherents in 2000, for a change of 29.3%

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 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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