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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 % Change
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant -2 -1,648 -26.9%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 0 -219 -2.0%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant +1 -15 -7.4%
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant -1 -45 -40.2%
Catholic Church Catholic +1 +93,455 124.6%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant -1 +420 71.7%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 0 +147 31.9%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 -291 -21.6%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 0 -51 -26.8%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +1 +324 27.6%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +1 +105 29.8%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +7 +2,191 18.8%
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant -1 -189 -45.9%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant -1 +524 15.7%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +1 +349 8.0%
Churches of God, General Conference Evangelical Protestant -1 -5 -4.3%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant -1 n.a. n.a.
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 +92 4.3%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant -2 +90 40.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 +142 6.5%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant -1 +179 102.9%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -5 -3,495 -83.7%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +3 +2,667 88.9%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +11 +6,237 261.7%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant +2 +129 29.0%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology -1 +200 14.3%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant +1 -671 -15.6%
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of Evangelical Protestant +2 +378 21.3%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant -1 -344 -47.2%
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant -3 +1,019 40.1%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 0 -523 -18.6%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 0 +11 36.7%
Reformed Church in the United States Evangelical Protestant 0 +22 8.2%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +3 1.3%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +1 -707 -15.5%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +6 +3,418 13.4%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology -1 -10 -11.8%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -2 -406 -33.9%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -1 -1,387 -24.6%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +3 +346 692.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +1 7.1%
  Totals: +17 +102,443 +56.3%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 543,477; in 2000 it was 661,645. The total population changed 21.7%. The adherent totals for 1990 (190,667) represent 35.1% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (288,811) include 43.7% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 40 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 40 groups had 181,853 adherents in 1990 and 284,296 adherents in 2000, for a change of 56.3%

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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