San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, CA CMSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

371,726	257,285	30,099	1,676,993	396,795	4,306,464
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	314	1,027,627	191.4
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	175	68,294	12.7
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	170	84,317	15.7
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	152	35,885	6.7
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	143	56,802	10.6
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	135	63,168	11.8
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	121	55,541	10.4
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	105	36,803	6.9
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	104	14,875	2.8
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	102	45,917	8.6
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	81	33,127	6.2
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	70	21,306	4.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	69	23,758	4.4
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	54	9,083	1.7
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	40	8,640	1.6
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	30	19,866	3.7
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	28	5,341	1.0
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	27	6,063	1.1
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	27	1,419	0.3
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	27	16,655	3.1
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	23	2,537	0.5
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	21	4,365	0.8
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	18	3,080	0.6
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	17	4,369	0.8
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	17	3,120	0.6
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	16	4,666	0.9
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	16	1,890	0.4
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	16	3,843	0.7
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	16	4,729	0.9
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	16	4,263	0.8
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	11	2,325	0.4
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	10	903	0.2
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	10	3,611	0.7
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,378	0.3
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	7	1,338	0.3
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	7	435	0.1
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,383	0.3
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	5	962	0.2
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	4	729	0.1
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	4	1,390	0.3
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	4	911	0.2
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	107	0.0
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	145	0.0
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	2	662	0.1
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	96	0.0
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	2	79	0.0
Apostolic Lutheran Church of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	119	0.0
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church	Mainline Protestant	1	298	0.1
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	1	24	0.0
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarene)	Evangelical Protestant	1	38	0.0
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	900	0.2
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	142	0.0
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	245	0.1
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	83	0.0
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	2,246	1,689,652

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 5,367,925. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (1,689,652) include 31.5% 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.