Floyd County, Virginia

Denominational Groups, 2000

3,727	1,461		23	3	8,660
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^†
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	13	1.1
Catholic Church	Catholic	1	23	1.9
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	2	95	7.9
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	2	162	13.5
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	1	50	4.2
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	13	1,669	139.0
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	1	104	8.7
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	54	4.5
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	2	178	14.8
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	191	15.9
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	3	257	21.4
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	60	5.0
Primitive Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	7	173	14.4
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	4	826	68.8
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	10	1,064	88.6
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	53	4,919

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 12,005. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (4,919) include 41.0% 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.