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Chico-Paradise, CA MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

19,865 7,653 200 19,483 8,450 147,520
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 Association, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -92 -65.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 0 -169 -15.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +1 -244 -12.0%
Catholic Church Catholic -2 +9,710 99.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +4 +2,269 112.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 0 +131 19.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 -16 -3.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 0 -113 -67.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +1 +619 1015.0%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +1 +45 n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +4 +1,628 29.0%
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant -1 -68 -58.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant -1 +154 16.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 -109 -18.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 -161 -13.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +3 +1,400 800.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 +299 38.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 0 -185 -46.0%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant +1 +39 n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +3 +541 n.a.
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +1 +750 n.a.
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +31 3.0%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 0 +94 28.0%
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant +6 +643 n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 0 +64 6.0%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 0 +80 n.a.
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +158 80.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +1 +704 31.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +2 -550 -22.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 +28 65.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 0 -126 -37.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 0 -269 -13.0%
  Totals: 26 +17,285 +47.5%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 143,851; in 2000 it was 203,171. The total population changed 11.6%. The adherent totals for 1980 (36,436) represent 25.3% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (55,651) include 27.4% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 32 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 32 groups had 36,384 adherents in 1980 and 53,669 adherents in 2000, for a change of 47.5%

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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