Clay County, West Virginia

Denominational Groups, 2000

353	1,835		103	2	8,037
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^†
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	128	11.4
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	14	2,269	201.4
Catholic Church	Catholic	1	66	5.9
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	2	244	21.7
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	13	506	44.9
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	33	3,213

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 11,265. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (3,213) include 28.5% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

^†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.