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	% Change
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	+1	+64	533.3%
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	+238	301.3%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+42	210.0%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+1,032	209.3%
Catholic Church	Catholic	-1	+32,687	91.9%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+139	85.8%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+35	77.8%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+640	64.0%
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	+235	38.3%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+1	+1,470	37.2%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+550	31.4%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	0	+26	22.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+1	+261	18.5%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	+466	16.9%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	+1	+259	16.8%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+97	16.1%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	+1	+77	14.2%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+26	14.2%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	-2	+223	13.8%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+1	+200	13.3%
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	0	+50	4.5%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-18	-1.8%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-65	-3.7%
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	0	-8	-5.4%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	-221	-9.2%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	-107	-12.9%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-255	-15.1%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	-162	-16.4%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-17	-22.1%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	0	-725	-30.5%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-2	-146	-62.9%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
	Totals:	+3	+37,093	+55.7%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 217,162; in 2000 it was 246,681. The total population changed 13.6%. The adherent totals for 1990 (68,269) represent 31.4% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (107,121) include 43.4% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 31 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 31 groups had 66,543 adherents in 1990 and 103,636 adherents in 2000, for a change of 55.7%

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 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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