Alleghany County, Virginia

Denominational Groups, 2000

3,161	3,811				5,954
Evangelical Protestant	Mainline Protestant	Orthodox	Catholic	Other	Unclaimed

Congregational "adherents" include all full members, their children, and others who regularly attend services. The historically African American denominations are not included in the 2000 congregation and membership totals. Many are also missing in 1990 and most historically African American denominations are missing in the 1980 reports.
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Reports

Religious Bodies	Theology	Congregations	Adherents	Adherence Rate^†
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	421	16.9
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	3	961	38.7
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	2	146	5.9
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	523	21.1
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	484	19.5
Catholic Church	Catholic	2	407	16.4
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	3	404	16.3
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	1	62	2.5
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	6	300	12.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	173	7.0
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	35	1.4
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	1	97	3.9
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	60	2.4
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	2	200	8.1
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	43	1.7
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	17	0.7
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	10	2,605	104.9
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	80	3.2
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	10	3,365	135.4
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	20	5,534	222.7
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	175	7.0
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	73	16,092

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 24,846. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (16,092) include 64.8% of the total population in 1990.

Source

The 1990 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and include statistics for 132 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Martin B. Bradley, Norman M. Green, Jr., Dale E. Jones, Mac Lynn, and Lou McNeil supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1990, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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^†The adherence rate provides the number of adherents of a particular group per 1,000 population. For example, in 2000 the Episcopal Church had an adherence rate of approximately 8 (8.1) in Autauga County, Alabama. This means that 8 out of every 1,000 people in Autauga county are Episcopalian.