Salem County, Virginia

Denominational Groups, 2000

8,129	4,686		1,200	442	10,290
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^†
Catholic Church	Catholic	1	1,200	48.5
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	2	231	9.3
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	415	16.8
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	1	149	6.0
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	1	287	11.6
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	2	96	3.9
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	244	9.9
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	237	9.6
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	1	50	2.0
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	5	5,902	238.5
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	518	20.9
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	1	326	13.2
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	2	923	37.3
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	1	696	28.1
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	3	2,741	110.8
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	442	17.9
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	27	14,457
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		16,602

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was ; in 2000 it was 24,747. The total population changed %. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (14,457) include 58.4% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (16,602) include 67.1% 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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