Jefferson County, West Virginia

Denominational Groups, 2000

2,804	7,582		3,254	346	28,204
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^†
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	43	1.4
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	4	379	12.5
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	5	664	21.9
Catholic Church	Catholic	3	811	26.8
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	1	101	3.3
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	164	5.4
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	8	1,898	62.6
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	4	1,133	37.4
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	5	968	32.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	103	3.4
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,370	45.2
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	2	167	5.5
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	22	3,900	128.7
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	61	11,701

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 30,302. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (11,701) include 38.6% 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.