Santa Cruz County, California has 140 churches in the Churches List directory, 1 of them verified and 47 with a published website. The 2020 US Religion Census counted 188 congregations and 106,948 adherents across 51 religious bodies in the county. That is 395 adherents per 1,000 residents of its 270,870 people.
| Religious body | Congregations | Adherents | Per 1,000 pop. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catholic Church | 14 | 69,975 | 258.3 |
| Non-denominational Christian Churches | 17 | 9,330 | 34.4 |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 7 | 4,081 | 15.1 |
| Jehovah's Witnesses | 17 | 3,990 | 14.7 |
| Vajarayana Buddhist | 9 | 3,370 | 12.4 |
| Mahayana Buddhist | 4 | 1,503 | 5.5 |
| Reform Judaism | 1 | 1,418 | 5.2 |
| Theravada Buddhist | 3 | 1,318 | 4.9 |
| Seventh-day Adventist Church | 5 | 1,226 | 4.5 |
| National Missionary Baptist Convention, Inc. | 5 | 1,196 | 4.4 |
| Hindu Yoga and Meditation | 9 | 1,137 | 4.2 |
| Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America | 2 | 1,000 | 3.7 |
Source: 2020 US Religion Census (Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies). Per-1,000 rates divide reported adherents by the county's 2020 Census population (270,870). Largest 12 bodies by adherents shown.
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Directory traditions here: Catholic (18) · Non-Denominational (17) · Baptist Churches (15) · Lutheran (7) · Presbyterian (7) · Seventh Day Adventist (6) · Christian Science (6) · Community (6) · Episcopal (5) · Foursquare (5)
Directory listings are mapped to Santa Cruz County through the US Census Bureau's 2020 ZCTA-to-county relationship file: each ZIP Code Tabulation Area is assigned to the county holding the largest share of its land area, so a small number of churches in ZIP codes that straddle county lines may be attributed to a neighboring county. Congregation and adherent counts come from the 2020 US Religion Census and are reported by the religious bodies themselves. Population is the county's April 2020 decennial-census base from the US Census Bureau's population-estimates program; per-1,000 adherence rates divide reported adherents by that figure. Corrections to any listing go through the corrections page.