Tulare County, California has 436 churches in the Churches List directory, 5 of them verified and 103 with a published website. The 2020 US Religion Census counted 417 congregations and 252,857 adherents across 68 religious bodies in the county. That is 534 adherents per 1,000 residents of its 473,116 people.
| Religious body | Congregations | Adherents | Per 1,000 pop. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catholic Church | 29 | 172,153 | 363.9 |
| Non-denominational Christian Churches | 40 | 17,670 | 37.3 |
| Jehovah's Witnesses | 31 | 8,380 | 17.7 |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 14 | 8,162 | 17.3 |
| Assemblies of God | 36 | 7,085 | 15.0 |
| Church of the Nazarene | 20 | 5,460 | 11.5 |
| Seventh-day Adventist Church | 15 | 4,105 | 8.7 |
| Southern Baptist Convention | 26 | 3,841 | 8.1 |
| United Methodist Church | 9 | 2,068 | 4.4 |
| Churches of Christ | 19 | 1,791 | 3.8 |
| Church of God in Christ | 4 | 1,760 | 3.7 |
| Reformed Church in America | 9 | 1,717 | 3.6 |
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 (473,116). Largest 12 bodies by adherents shown.
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Directory traditions here: Non-Denominational (69) · Baptist Churches (65) · Catholic (29) · Church of God (26) · Church of the Nazarene (21) · Assemblies of God (20) · Church of Christ (19) · Apostolic (16) · Foursquare (16) · Seventh Day Adventist (13)
Church registers are among the richest genealogical sources: baptisms, marriages, and burials often predate civil records. The FamilySearch catalog holds microfilmed church records for many California counties, filed by denomination and parish name: search Tulare County church records on FamilySearch (free account). Cross-reference with the historic-register churches above and the cemeteries listed on each church's page.
FEMA has issued 23 disaster declarations covering Tulare County since records began in 1953, most recently in 2023. The most frequent cause: flood (8 declarations). Churches have historically served as shelters and relief hubs in these events; congregations can register preparedness plans with their county emergency management agency.
Source: OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries.
Directory listings are mapped to Tulare 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.