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San Luis Obispo-Atascadero-Paso Robles, CA MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

22,321 8,944   68,264 7,592 139,560
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
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 2 495 3.2
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 12 1,819 11.7
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 4 642 4.1
Catholic Church Catholic 12 20,516 132.0
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 300 1.9
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 3 302 1.9
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 3 395 2.5
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 2 156 1.0
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 1 85 0.6
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 6 3,117 20.1
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 5 1,680 10.8
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 10 830 5.3
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 6 1,522 9.8
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 1 100 0.6
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 4 1,134 7.3
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 15 0.1
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 3 291 1.9
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 1 188 1.2
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 4 1,548 10.0
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 7 2,241 14.4
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 34 0.2
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 5 1,046 6.7
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 8 2,434 15.7
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 102 0.7
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 3 843 5.4
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 8 2,161 13.9
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 114 43,996  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 155,435. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (43,996) include 28.3% 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.