Charlottesville, VA MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

25,852	18,614	705	9,414	3,614	101,377
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	% Change
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	+2	+568	12.2%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+163	72.4%
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+88	225.6%
Catholic Church	Catholic	+1	+3,865	69.7%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+814	50.1%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+124	92.5%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+248	281.8%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+1	+550	57.9%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	+1	+217	6.0%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+78	5.2%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	+1	+105	161.5%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-44	-18.3%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-34	-38.6%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	+428	47.5%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	0	0.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-86	-9.6%
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+69	132.7%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	0	+38	46.9%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-154	-44.5%
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	0	-80	-45.2%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	0	-37	-28.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+55	33.3%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	0	-1,342	-7.2%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	-45	-10.2%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	-1	-584	-60.6%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-1	-290	-62.5%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+451	77.6%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-41	-4.5%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-13	-6.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-3	-1,380	-14.9%
	Totals:	+5	+3,731	+7.0%

The population of these 4 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 131,107; in 2000 it was 159,576. The total population changed 21.7%. The adherent totals for 1990 (60,190) represent 45.9% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (58,199) include 36.5% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 30 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 30 groups had 53,202 adherents in 1990 and 56,933 adherents in 2000, for a change of 7.0%

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 1990 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and include statistics for 132 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Martin B. Bradley, Norman M. Green, Jr., Dale E. Jones, Mac Lynn, and Lou McNeil supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1990, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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