Top 15 Reporting Religious Bodies Chico-Paradise, CA
Church, Christian, or Religious Body	Adherents (and rank)						Congregations
	in 2000			in 1990			in 2000	in 1990
Catholic Church, The	19,483	(1)		15,382	(1)		6	8
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	7,172	(2)		7,066	(2)		16	19
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	4,287	(3)		3,789	(3)		7	6
Seventh-day Adventist Church	3,094	(4)		3,421	(4)		7	6
Southern Baptist Convention	1,982	(5)		2,407	(6)		10	9
United Methodist Church, The	1,801	(6)		2,117	(7)		7	7
Assemblies of God	1,717	(7)		2,453	(5)		14	13
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	1,575	(8)		1,242	(11)		5	4
Presbyterian Church (USA)	1,234	(9)		1,320	(9)		3	3
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	1,191	(10)		1,439	(8)		4	4
Episcopal Church	1,105	(11)		1,266	(10)		4	4
Church of the Nazarene	1,099	(12)		943	(13)		4	4
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	1,078	(13)		1,004	(12)		2	2
American Baptist Churches in the USA	927	(14)		755	(14)		3	3
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the United States and Canada	829	(15)		735	(15)		2	2

Metropolitan Population, 2000 Census:		203,171
Percent of Population Claimed by Reporting Groups:		27.4%

National Average: 50.2% claimed

Reporting Groups (149 possible):	45	(36 of 133 in 1990)
Total Reported Adherents:	55,651	(50,082 in 1990)
Total Reported Congregations:	152	(137 in 1990)

The metro area included 1 county (or equivalent) at the time of the 2000 census:
	Butte 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.