Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange County, CA CMSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

1,167,703	514,964	83,825	5,688,881	1,065,974	7,852,298
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	419	2,598,828	226.0
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	397	186,047	16.2
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	326	168,136	14.6
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	286	66,317	5.8
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	281	138,677	12.1
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	236	35,431	3.1
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	226	104,347	9.1
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	215	102,088	8.9
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	210	120,601	10.5
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	181	64,027	5.6
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	177	76,561	6.7
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	160	70,681	6.2
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	152	74,860	6.5
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	149	38,278	3.3
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	109	32,070	2.8
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	95	25,817	2.3
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	95	28,775	2.5
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	77	20,131	1.8
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	77	47,183	4.1
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	57	4,834	0.4
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	48	16,062	1.4
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	46	22,548	2.0
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	45	11,097	1.0
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	40	5,364	0.5
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	37	7,290	0.6
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	36	3,903	0.3
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	34	4,819	0.4
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	31	6,890	0.6
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	29	9,741	0.9
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	26	2,880	0.3
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	23	1,242	0.1
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	23	26,295	2.3
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	22	8,198	0.7
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	22	14,385	1.3
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	18	2,976	0.3
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	17	2,552	0.2
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	16	4,050	0.4
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	14	2,853	0.3
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	14	4,600	0.4
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	11	995	0.1
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	11	4,210	0.4
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	10	850	0.1
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,047	0.1
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,256	0.1
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	7	7,458	0.7
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	6	557	0.1
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	6	2,222	0.2
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	5	238	0.0
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	5	4,544	0.4
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	5	238	0.0
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	4	912	0.1
Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	3	228	0.0
Fire Baptized Holiness Church, (Wesleyan), The	Evangelical Protestant	3	36	0.0
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarene)	Evangelical Protestant	3	152	0.0
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	2	502	0.0
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	99	0.0
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	265	0.0
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	2	141	0.0
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	2	505	0.0
Protestant Reformed Churches in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	148	0.0
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch	Orthodox	1	6,025	0.5
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	92	0.0
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church	Mainline Protestant	1	482	0.0
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	4,576	4,194,636

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 11,497,568. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (4,194,636) include 36.5% 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.