Hanover County, Virginia

Denominational Groups, 2000

24,992	12,444		2,895	866	45,123
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	1	303	3.5
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	2	1,765	20.5
Bahá'í	Other Theology	1	14	0.2
Catholic Church	Catholic	1	2,895	33.5
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	6	1,713	19.8
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	9	4,651	53.9
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	1	340	3.9
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	2	655	7.6
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	1	245	2.8
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	200	2.3
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	8	1,897	22.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	320	3.7
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	2	252	2.9
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	1,300	15.1
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	171	2.0
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	8	1,850	21.4
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	67	0.8
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	447	5.2
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	23	15,706	182.0
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	197	2.3
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	16	6,109	70.8
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	100	1.2
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	89	41,197
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		48,602

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 63,306; in 2000 it was 86,320. The total population changed 36.4%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (41,197) include 47.7% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (48,602) include 56.3% 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/grc [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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