James City County, Virginia

Denominational Groups, 2000

5,165	5,200		7,450	718	29,569
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^†
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	6	3,512	75.7
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	3	2,765	59.6
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	3	2,139	46.1
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	2	748	16.1
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	217	4.7
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	2	1,566	33.8
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	252	5.4
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	133	2.9
Catholic Church	Catholic	1	4,161	89.7
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	1	433	9.3
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	348	7.5
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	1	33	0.7
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	188	4.1
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	160	3.5
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	0	0.0
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	143	3.1
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	86	1.9
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	159	3.4
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	33	0.7
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	214	4.6
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	2,974	64.1
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	34	20,264

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 46,389. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (20,264) include 43.7% 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.