Modesto, CA MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

61,374	12,273	4,502	105,628	11,669	251,551
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	14	105,628	236.3
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	14,717	32.9
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	33	11,538	25.8
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	25	10,465	23.4
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	21	10,444	23.4
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	9	4,104	9.2
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses	Orthodox	3	3,292	7.4
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	8	2,996	6.7
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	9	2,363	5.3
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	19	2,359	5.3
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	5	2,025	4.5
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,859	4.2
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	6	1,810	4.1
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	1,700	3.8
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,607	3.6
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,589	3.6
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	3	1,320	3.0
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	2	1,190	2.7
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	1,167	2.6
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	7	1,160	2.6
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	3	1,091	2.4
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	13	884	2.0
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	840	1.9
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	8	771	1.7
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	4	684	1.5
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	3	601	1.3
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	5	570	1.3
General Association of Regular Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	524	1.2
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	1	500	1.1
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	2	439	1.0
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	3	434	1.0
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	2	421	0.9
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Etchmiadzin	Orthodox	1	370	0.8
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	4	339	0.8
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	1	315	0.7
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	304	0.7
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	301	0.7
Muslim Estimate	Other Theology	1	300	0.7
Bahá'í	Other Theology	3	276	0.6
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	4	254	0.6
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	251	0.6
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	227	0.5
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	201	0.5
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	194	0.4
Vineyard USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	172	0.4
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	149	0.3
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	149	0.3
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	143	0.3
Community of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	106	0.2
Reformed Church in the United States	Evangelical Protestant	1	106	0.2
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	2	98	0.2
Landmark Missionary Baptists, Independent Associations and Unaffiliated Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	73	0.2
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	26	0.1
Sikh	Other Theology	2	n.a.	n.a.
Calvary Chapel Fellowship Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Primitive Baptist Churches--Old Line	Evangelical Protestant	3	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	278	195,446
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		221,804

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 370,522; in 2000 it was 446,997. The total population changed 20.6%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (195,446) include 43.7% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (221,804) include 49.6% of the population.

Source

^*The “Unadjusted Totals” come from the 1990 and 2000 data collected by representatives of the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). While quite comprehensive, this data excludes most of the historically African-American denominations and some other major groups. As a result, these numbers will be an underestimate of the total adherence rate, particularly in areas with a large African-American population. The 2000 data included 149 religious groups and the final results are published in Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Copyright © 2002, All rights reserved. The 1990 data included 132 groups and the final results are published in Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990 Copyright © 1990, All rights reserved. Published by Glenmary Research Center, 1312 Fifth Ave., North, Nashville, TN 37208. www.glenmary.org/grc [More information on the data collection]

^**The “Adjusted Totals” include all adherents in the denominations counted by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and estimates adherent totals for the historically African-American denominations and other religious groups not listed in the ASARB totals. An article by Roger Finke and Christopher P. Scheitle (2005) reviews how these estimates were computed.

^†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.

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