Planning for the Future of the California Catholic Church: A Demographic Study (PDF; 218 KB)
Source: California Catholic Conference
From press release: “California’s Catholic population is growing by more than 13 percent each year, and by 2025 Catholics will make up more than 36 percent of the state’s population, up from 30 percent in 2005, according to a landmark demographic study conducted for the California Catholic Conference. In 2005, 11.1 million of California’s 36.6 million people were Catholic; by 2025, 16.7 million of state’s expected 45.9 million residents will be Catholic, an increase of 5.6 million people. By contrast, California’s non-Catholic population is growing at a rate of 4 percent a year. Catholics represent nearly 60 percent of California’s projected population growth in the next 20 years.”

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