Prince William County, Virginia

Denominational Groups, 2000

19,194	18,982		39,332	4,687	198,618
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

2000 Report
1990 Report
1980 Report
1980-2000 Change

Religious Bodies	Theology	Congregations	Adherents	% Change
Catholic Church	Catholic	-1	+18,395	88.0%
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-93	-26.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+1,274	72.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	-21	-12.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	-2	+470	83.0%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-320	-36.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	+316	105.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-390	-54.0%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+400	n.a.
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	-3	-98	-37.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+66	9.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+110	n.a.
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+448	1211.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+84	68.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+137	49.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+9	-1,618	-14.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+194	n.a.
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	-1	-1,505	-44.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+2	+1,681	61.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-4	+735	41.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-1	+503	5.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+3	+930	50.0%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	+1,749	3429.0%
	Totals:	1	+23,447	+40.1%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 166,665; in 2000 it was 280,813. The total population changed 12.2%. The adherent totals for 1980 (58,637) represent 35.2% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (82,195) include 29.3% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 23 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 23 groups had 58,405 adherents in 1980 and 81,852 adherents in 2000, for a change of 40.1%

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 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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