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Fairfax County, Virginia

Denominational Groups, 2000

56,969 93,217 605 206,657 63,965 548,336
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
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 4 1,102 1.8
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 8 2,375 3.8
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 79 0.1
Catholic Church Catholic 24 84,806 135.5
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 2 265 0.4
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 6 2,229 3.6
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 6 939 1.5
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 1 117 0.2
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 2 300 0.5
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 3 126 0.2
Church of God General Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 41 0.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 10 4,792 7.7
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 2 600 1.0
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 2 185 0.3
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 7 1,642 2.6
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 23 19,967 31.9
Evangelical Covenant Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 47 0.1
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 1 206 0.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 17 12,001 19.2
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 243 0.4
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 1 39 0.1
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 3 1,751 2.8
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 6 4,003 6.4
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 1 60 0.1
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 156 0.3
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 44 11,589 18.5
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 5 979 1.6
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 132 0.2
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 2 546 0.9
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 27 21,774 34.8
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 2 681 1.1
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 5 2,735 4.4
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 52 45,049 72.0
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 349 0.6
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 273 221,905  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 625,806. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (221,905) include 35.5% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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.