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Stockton-Lodi, CA MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

45,155 16,709 903 138,485 13,832 348,514
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 20 96,735 201.3
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 24 9,615 20.0
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 20 8,839 18.4
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 7,613 15.8
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 23 6,673 13.9
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 14 5,485 11.4
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 11 5,002 10.4
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant 5 3,746 7.8
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 6 3,717 7.7
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 6 3,624 7.5
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 8 2,638 5.5
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 5 2,463 5.1
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 21 2,155 4.5
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 5 1,761 3.7
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 8 1,620 3.4
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 2 1,600 3.3
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 4 1,594 3.3
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 7 1,453 3.0
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant 14 1,334 2.8
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 7 1,285 2.7
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 1 1,188 2.5
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 3 1,064 2.2
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 3 810 1.7
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant 3 493 1.0
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of Evangelical Protestant 1 381 0.8
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 4 372 0.8
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 333 0.7
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 3 310 0.6
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 298 0.6
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio) Evangelical Protestant 3 284 0.6
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 4 226 0.5
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 199 0.4
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 3 190 0.4
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 2 165 0.3
Church of God (Seventh Day) Evangelical Protestant 2 139 0.3
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 3 135 0.3
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 2 130 0.3
Evangelical Methodist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 127 0.3
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 2 115 0.2
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 1 113 0.2
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 1 110 0.2
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses Orthodox 0 112 0.2
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 51 0.1
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 17 0.0
Churches of God, General Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 0 0.0
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 3 n.a. n.a.
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 2 n.a. n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America Evangelical Protestant 3 n.a. n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 3 n.a. n.a.
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 270 176,314  
The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 480,628. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (176,314) include 36.7% 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.