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	% Change
Catholic Church	Catholic	+21	+1,457,146	34.4%
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	-24	+71,450	91.0%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+70	+39,855	6.4%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+53	+17,672	18.8%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+17,064	44.6%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	+15	+10,819	210.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+5,450	51.1%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	-5	+3,974	18.5%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+3,289	64.8%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+11	+2,873	37.4%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+2,107	79.9%
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses	Orthodox	0	+1,875	232.9%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+13	+1,447	36.8%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	-11	+1,420	2.0%
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	-8	+1,231	19.5%
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+9	+1,086	52.7%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	+10	+960	22.3%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+9	+832	49.4%
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	+9	+769	221.6%
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+384	29.2%
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+225	28.6%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	-3	+96	2.2%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+89	12.4%
Reformed Church in the United States	Evangelical Protestant	0	+35	125.0%
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	+24	+33	0.3%
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarene)	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+20	7.8%
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+3	2.7%
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-8	-9.1%
Netherlands Reformed Congregations	Evangelical Protestant	0	-12	-44.4%
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	-20	-23.0%
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-83	-81.4%
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-91	-46.0%
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	+4	-181	-9.1%
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-262	-45.6%
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	-2	-302	-46.7%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	-5	-311	-4.7%
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	+3	-375	-10.5%
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	-3	-522	-7.6%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	+9	-544	-6.1%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+2	-805	-21.6%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	-6	-1,013	-38.3%
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	-3	-1,372	-89.1%
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	-2	-1,701	-5.5%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	-8	-1,741	-25.2%
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch	Orthodox	0	-2,100	-23.3%
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+7	-2,730	-11.6%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	-13	-3,427	-1.4%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	-3	-4,236	-5.5%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-3	-4,806	-20.6%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+13	-4,969	-11.1%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-5,038	-12.8%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+147	-5,198	-2.3%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-5	-5,619	-23.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	-3	-6,314	-6.1%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+6	-7,234	-10.4%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+12	-11,191	-10.1%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+36	-11,953	-14.7%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	-17	-11,962	-13.6%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	+4	-16,327	-14.5%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-8	-28,680	-23.9%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	+19	n.a.	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	-1	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	-2	n.a.	n.a.
	Totals:	+392	+1,501,077	+22.4%

The population of these 5 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 14,531,529; in 2000 it was 16,373,645. The total population changed 12.7%. The adherent totals for 1990 (7,045,177) represent 48.5% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (8,521,347) include 52.0% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 60 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 60 groups had 6,696,092 adherents in 1990 and 8,197,169 adherents in 2000, for a change of 22.4%

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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