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Bakersfield, CA MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

85,266 17,337 286 168,455 17,467 372,834
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
American Baptist Association, The Evangelical Protestant 13 1,204 3.0
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 15 6,748 16.7
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 37 8,364 20.8
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 307 0.8
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 3 185 0.5
Catholic Church Catholic 32 79,888 198.2
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 1 165 0.4
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 2 708 1.8
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 10 1,816 4.5
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 1 167 0.4
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 2 750 1.9
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 13 1,001 2.5
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 21 8,519 21.1
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 2 546 1.4
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 16 3,705 9.2
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 35 4,207 10.4
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 4 861 2.1
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 9 2,337 5.8
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 8 2,049 5.1
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 9 1,581 3.9
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 9 529 1.3
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 3 413 1.0
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 10 2,193 5.4
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 6 3,082 7.7
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 1 31 0.1
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 208 0.5
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 11 2,917 7.2
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 49 19,976 49.6
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 2 116 0.3
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 7 1,420 3.5
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 18 5,920 14.7
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant 1 70 0.2
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 352 161,983  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 403,089. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (161,983) include 40.2% 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.