Charlottesville County, Virginia

Denominational Groups, 2000

10,631	5,976	705	5,318	2,569	19,850
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^†
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	2	388	8.6
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	28	0.6
Buddhism	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
Catholic Church	Catholic	2	5,318	118.1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	3	1,509	33.5
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	1	86	1.9
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	385	8.6
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	1	101	2.2
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	160	3.6
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	1	1,381	30.7
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	119	2.6
General Association of Regular Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	25	0.6
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	405	9.0
International Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	54	1.2
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	2	1,500	33.3
Muslim Estimate	Other Theology	1	288	6.4
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	95	2.1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	2	1,845	41.0
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	1,398	31.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	129	2.9
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	8	6,658	147.8
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA	Orthodox	1	300	6.7
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	396	8.8
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	3	2,608	57.9
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	23	0.5
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	40	25,199
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		33,196

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was ; in 2000 it was 45,049. The total population changed %. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (25,199) include 55.9% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (33,196) include 73.7% 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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