Visalia-Tulare-Porterville, CA MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

48,926	16,162	770	119,080	5,686	177,397
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^†
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	36	5,278	16.9
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	24	2,504	8.0
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	23	9,587	30.7
Catholic Church	Catholic	19	40,000	128.2
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	18	1,259	4.0
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	17	5,042	16.2
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	14	4,470	14.3
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	13	2,963	9.5
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	12	1,229	3.9
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	12	3,267	10.5
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	12	3,315	10.6
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,099	3.5
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	8	4,430	14.2
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	7	901	2.9
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	7	346	1.1
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,776	5.7
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,025	3.3
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	5	856	2.7
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	5	1,565	5.0
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,315	4.2
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	109	0.4
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	3	2,975	9.5
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	3	1,300	4.2
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	3	n.a.	n.a.
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	3	1,221	3.9
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	3	1,125	3.6
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	3	796	2.6
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	2	783	2.5
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	646	2.1
Churches of God, General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	64	0.2
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	2	52	0.2
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	2	530	1.7
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	270	0.9
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	385	1.2
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	30	0.1
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	1	375	1.2
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	80	0.3
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	40	0.1
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	16	0.1
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	1	69	0.2
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean)	Evangelical Protestant	1	20	0.1
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	125	0.4
Church of the United Brethren in Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	64	0.2
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	140	0.5
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	1,345	4.3
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	301	104,787

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 311,921. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (104,787) include 33.6% 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.