Danville, VA MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

37,130	12,509	159	1,326	682	58,350
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^†
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	62	24,706	224.3
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	37	9,012	81.8
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	12	1,698	15.4
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	11	1,485	13.5
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,528	13.9
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	7	892	8.1
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	6	530	4.8
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	6	296	2.7
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	4	4,880	44.3
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,620	14.7
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	3	392	3.6
Catholic Church	Catholic	2	1,326	12.0
Primitive Baptist Churches--Old Line	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	2	242	2.2
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	2	231	2.1
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	413	3.8
Southwide Baptist Fellowship	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	2	556	5.1
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	192	1.7
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	203	1.8
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	1	107	1.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	359	3.3
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	159	1.4
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	1	213	1.9
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	1	125	1.1
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	148	1.3
National Primitive Baptist Convention, USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	223	2.0
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	67	0.6
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	202	1.8
Bahá'í	Other Theology	0	1	0.0
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	189	51,806
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		74,807

The population of these 2 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 108,711; in 2000 it was 110,156. The total population changed 1.3%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (51,806) include 47.0% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (74,807) include 67.9% 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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