Sacramento-Yolo, CA CMSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

174,410	59,568	6,644	319,322	80,486	1,156,427
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^†
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	720	0.5
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection	Evangelical Protestant	1	27	0.0
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	23	7,934	5.4
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses	Orthodox	1	127	0.1
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	53	25,267	17.1
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	4	191	0.1
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	27,727	18.7
Catholic Church	Catholic	65	203,794	137.6
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,223	0.8
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	150	0.1
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	8	1,377	0.9
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,287	0.9
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	2	258	0.2
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	11	n.a.	n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,069	0.7
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	5	638	0.4
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	3	207	0.1
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	6	235	0.2
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	98	43,892	29.6
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	117	0.1
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	23	5,405	3.7
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	34	4,281	2.9
Churches of God, General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	51	0.0
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	12	n.a.	n.a.
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	19	6,657	4.5
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,491	1.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	30	14,424	9.7
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	2	244	0.2
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	5	505	0.3
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	2	n.a.	n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	10	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	13	18,775	12.7
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	5	2,050	1.4
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	17	1,712	1.2
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	5	185	0.1
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	4	12,500	8.4
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	18	6,212	4.2
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	3	210	0.1
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	3	437	0.3
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	8	4,133	2.8
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	4	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	2	n.a.	n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	20	1,308	0.9
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	25	15,550	10.5
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	74	0.1
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	6	2,352	1.6
Reformed Church in the United States	Evangelical Protestant	1	169	0.1
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	369	0.3
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	28	10,092	6.8
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	69	31,828	21.5
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	4	936	0.6
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	11	3,078	2.1
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	43	12,301	8.3
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,295	0.9
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	3	1,373	0.9
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	753	476,237

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 1,481,102. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (476,237) include 32.2% of the total population in 1990.

Source

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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^†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.