Top 15 Reporting Religious Bodies
Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange County, CA (CMSA)

 

Church, Christian, or Religious Body Adherents (and rank) Congregations
in 2000 in 1990 in 2000 in 1990
Catholic Church, The 5,688,881 (1)   4,231,735 (1)   473 452
Jewish Estimate 662,450 (2)   622,595 (2)   254 184
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The 233,280 (3)   236,707 (4)   577 590
Southern Baptist Convention 223,947 (4)   229,145 (5)   538 391
Muslims Estimate 155,494 (5)   NA     77 NA
Independent, Charismatic Churches 149,950 (6)   78,500 (13)   40 64
Assemblies of God 111,815 (7)   94,143 (10)   469 416
Seventh-day Adventist Church 102,282 (8)   110,970 (8)   225 211
American Baptist Churches in the USA 96,355 (9)   102,669 (9)   285 288
Presbyterian Church (USA) 96,228 (10)   112,555 (7)   252 248
United Methodist Church, The 91,086 (11)   119,766 (6)   287 295
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America 75,689 (12)   87,651 (11)   197 214
Episcopal Church 73,424 (13)   77,660 (14)   148 151
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches 72,015 (14)   70,595 (15)   48 59
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel 69,487 (15)   81,440 (12)   350 314

Metropolitan Population, 2000 Census:   16,373,645
Percent of Population Claimed by
Reporting Groups: 		  52.0%

National Average: 50.2% claimed

Reporting Groups (149 possible): 106 (84 of 133 in 1990)
Total Reported Adherents: 8,521,785 (7,045,177 in 1990)
Total Reported Congregations: 7,079 (6,047 in 1990)

The metro area included 5 counties (or equivalent) at the time of the 2000 census:
  Los Angeles County, CA; Orange County, CA; Riverside County, CA; San Bernardino County, CA; Ventura County, CA
The newly published book Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000 includes a CD that allows users to determine such lists for any selected group of counties.
Source: Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000
Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990
Both studies, copyrighted by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies, are published by the Glenmary Research Center, Nashville, Tenn. More information is available at www.glenmary.org/grc.