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^†
Catholic Church	Catholic	29	75,000	138.0
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	43	10,734	19.8
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	203	0.4
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	112	0.2
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	8,667	16.0
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	586	1.1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,345	2.5
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	78	0.1
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	1	190	0.4
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,176	2.2
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	1	69	0.1
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	7	352	0.7
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	3	412	0.8
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	16	3,329	6.1
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	36	4,338	8.0
Churches of God, General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	117	0.2
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	4	n.a.	n.a.
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	5	225	0.4
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	7	4,175	7.7
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	3,000	5.5
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	8	2,383	4.4
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	9	445	0.8
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	12	4,294	7.9
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,773	3.3
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	7	729	1.3
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	23	2,540	4.7
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	30	0.1
Reformed Church in the United States	Evangelical Protestant	2	269	0.5
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	237	0.4
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	16	4,547	8.4
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	58	25,425	46.8
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	50	0.1
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	14	0.0
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	16	6,125	11.3
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	2	461	0.9
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	9	2,133	3.9
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	6	2,170	4.0
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	2	174	0.3
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	6	2,811	5.2
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	7	1,196	2.2
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	19	5,638	10.4
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	6	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	28	11,630	21.4
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	3	1,400	2.6
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	2	85	0.2
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	433	190,667

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 543,477. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (190,667) include 35.1% 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.