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	% Change
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+1,255	246.1%
Catholic Church	Catholic	-1	+975	50.8%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	+291	20.5%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+3,182	216.6%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+115	51.1%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+1	+330	101.5%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	-18	-6.8%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+130	185.7%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	+470	32.9%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+32	11.1%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	0	+10	4.1%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-24	-12.3%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	+433	30.6%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+218	95.2%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+7	+3,793	31.8%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	+1	+411	7.2%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+20	25.0%
	Totals:	+13	+11,623	+42.0%

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 adherent totals for 1990 (31,656) represent 50.0% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (41,197) include 47.7% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 17 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 17 groups had 27,693 adherents in 1990 and 39,316 adherents in 2000, for a change of 42.0%

Sources

The 2000 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and includes statistics for 149 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Dale E. Jones, Sherri Doty, Clifford Grammich, James E. Horsch, Richard Houseal, Mac Lynn, John P. Marcum, Kenneth M. Sanchagrin and Richard H. Taylor supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States, 2000, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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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