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^†
Catholic Church	Catholic	26	206,657	213.1
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	50	42,462	43.8
Muslim Estimate	Other Theology	7	34,564	35.6
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	64	26,485	27.3
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	27	19,370	20.0
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	8	15,300	15.8
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	28	11,125	11.5
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	11	9,899	10.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	15	9,646	10.0
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	6	8,350	8.6
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	18	5,956	6.1
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	8	5,058	5.2
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	4	4,454	4.6
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	6	3,752	3.9
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	6	2,637	2.7
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,809	1.9
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	4	1,801	1.9
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,241	1.3
Bahá'í	Other Theology	14	1,175	1.2
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,082	1.1
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	5	999	1.0
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	5	808	0.8
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	685	0.7
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	5	640	0.7
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	8	564	0.6
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	1	415	0.4
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	3	393	0.4
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	4	364	0.4
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	359	0.4
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	337	0.4
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	333	0.3
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	2	305	0.3
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	1	300	0.3
Community of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	278	0.3
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	257	0.3
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	257	0.3
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	252	0.3
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	250	0.3
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	3	166	0.2
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	2	124	0.1
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	110	0.1
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	104	0.1
General Association of Regular Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	95	0.1
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	78	0.1
Progressive Primitive Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	56	0.1
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	1	50	0.1
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	11	0.0
Hindu	Other Theology	4	n.a.	n.a.
Southwide Baptist Fellowship	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Buddhism	Other Theology	9	n.a.	n.a.
Calvary Chapel Fellowship Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Sikh	Other Theology	3	n.a.	n.a.
Zoroastrian	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	406	421,413
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		499,211

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 847,784; in 2000 it was 969,749. The total population changed 14.4%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (421,413) include 43.5% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (499,211) include 51.5% of the population.

Source

^*The “Unadjusted Totals” come from the 1990 and 2000 data collected by representatives of the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). While quite comprehensive, this data excludes most of the historically African-American denominations and some other major groups. As a result, these numbers will be an underestimate of the total adherence rate, particularly in areas with a large African-American population. The 2000 data included 149 religious groups and the final results are published in Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Copyright © 2002, All rights reserved. The 1990 data included 132 groups and the final results are published in Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990 Copyright © 1990, All rights reserved. Published by Glenmary Research Center, 1312 Fifth Ave., North, Nashville, TN 37208. www.glenmary.org [More information on the data collection]

^**The “Adjusted Totals” include all adherents in the denominations counted by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and estimates adherent totals for the historically African-American denominations and other religious groups not listed in the ASARB totals. An article by Roger Finke and Christopher P. Scheitle (2005) reviews how these estimates were computed.

^†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.

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