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	% Change
Catholic Church	Catholic	+3	+168,904	112.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+20	+21,641	158.0%
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+20,595	n.a.
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+7	+20,049	1431.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+54	+19,486	66.0%
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+7,167	571.0%
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+10	+6,565	366.0%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+6,500	n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+19	+5,637	924.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+3,791	485.0%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	+9	+3,775	98.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+3,103	44.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	+3	+2,997	n.a.
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+18	+2,850	12.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+9	+2,847	1062.0%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+10	+2,005	n.a.
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+1,678	314.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+1,509	508.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	+4	+1,506	11.0%
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	+17	+1,460	n.a.
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+857	n.a.
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+762	141.0%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	+7	+689	n.a.
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+464	283.0%
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+393	786.0%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	+2	+371	n.a.
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+328	8.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+279	n.a.
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+261	137.0%
Reformed Church in the United States	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+205	n.a.
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	+1	+204	15.0%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	+1	+200	43.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+161	17.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	+2	+161	16.0%
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses	Orthodox	+1	+108	n.a.
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+78	11.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+61	n.a.
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+34	1.0%
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+28	n.a.
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	-1	+2	0.0%
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	0	-49	-22.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	+6	-77	-4.0%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	0	-132	-63.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	+4	-256	-35.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	+1	-313	-4.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+2	-409	-3.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	-796	-6.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+4	-1,387	-20.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	+1	-1,515	-45.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	0	-1,671	-26.0%
	Totals:	+282	+303,106	+94.3%

The population of these 4 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 1,099,814; in 2000 it was 1,796,857. The total population changed 21.3%. The adherent totals for 1980 (322,737) represent 29.3% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (640,430) include 35.6% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 50 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 50 groups had 321,378 adherents in 1980 and 624,484 adherents in 2000, for a change of 94.3%

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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