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	19	138,485	245.7
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	26	10,299	18.3
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	28	7,641	13.6
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	25	7,098	12.6
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	14	5,216	9.3
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	6	4,441	7.9
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	12	4,056	7.2
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	6	3,715	6.6
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	6	2,943	5.2
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	5	2,907	5.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	9	2,436	4.3
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	21	2,139	3.8
Muslim Estimate	Other Theology	4	2,068	3.7
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,719	3.1
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	4	1,700	3.0
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	7	1,530	2.7
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,414	2.5
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	1,389	2.5
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,295	2.3
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,290	2.3
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	13	985	1.8
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	903	1.6
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	1	850	1.5
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	768	1.4
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	3	753	1.3
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	3	679	1.2
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	6	570	1.0
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	5	462	0.8
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	435	0.8
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	3	396	0.7
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	382	0.7
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	1	375	0.7
Bahá'í	Other Theology	3	366	0.7
New Testament Association of Independent Baptist Churches and other Fundamental Baptist Associations/Fellowships	Evangelical Protestant	2	356	0.6
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	4	318	0.6
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	264	0.5
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	4	254	0.5
United Reformed Churches in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	250	0.4
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	249	0.4
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	4	241	0.4
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	2	141	0.3
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	137	0.2
Community of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	126	0.2
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	123	0.2
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	120	0.2
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	110	0.2
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	2	110	0.2
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	107	0.2
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	2	104	0.2
Reformed Church in the United States	Evangelical Protestant	1	81	0.1
Churches of God, General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	68	0.1
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	66	0.1
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	57	0.1
General Association of Regular Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	55	0.1
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	42	0.1
Buddhism	Other Theology	6	n.a.	n.a.
Sikh	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
Calvary Chapel Fellowship Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	312	215,084
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		252,873

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 480,628; in 2000 it was 563,598. The total population changed 17.3%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (215,084) include 38.2% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (252,873) include 44.9% of the population.

Source

^*The “Unadjusted Totals” come from the 1990 and 2000 data collected by representatives of the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). While quite comprehensive, this data excludes most of the historically African-American denominations and some other major groups. As a result, these numbers will be an underestimate of the total adherence rate, particularly in areas with a large African-American population. The 2000 data included 149 religious groups and the final results are published in Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Copyright © 2002, All rights reserved. The 1990 data included 132 groups and the final results are published in Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990 Copyright © 1990, All rights reserved. Published by Glenmary Research Center, 1312 Fifth Ave., North, Nashville, TN 37208. www.glenmary.org/grc [More information on the data collection]

^**The “Adjusted Totals” include all adherents in the denominations counted by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and estimates adherent totals for the historically African-American denominations and other religious groups not listed in the ASARB totals. An article by Roger Finke and Christopher P. Scheitle (2005) reviews how these estimates were computed.

^†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.

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