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	% Change
Catholic Church	Catholic	+1	+568	75.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	+92	61.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-276	-15.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+835	106.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+296	n.a.
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	0	-26	-6.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	-113	-51.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+85	72.0%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+4,880	n.a.
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	+12	+1,698	n.a.
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-50	-25.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+67	50.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+195	89.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+2	-187	-1.0%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+192	n.a.
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-1	-110	-11.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-544	-51.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-143	-28.0%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	0	+113	96.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-2	-923	-38.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-5	-2,369	-21.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	+1	+159	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	+43	8.0%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	+17	16.0%
	Totals:	+19	+4,499	+9.6%

The population of these 2 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 111,789; in 2000 it was 110,156. The total population changed 1.3%. The adherent totals for 1980 (47,435) represent 42.4% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (51,806) include 47.0% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 24 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 24 groups had 46,803 adherents in 1980 and 51,302 adherents in 2000, for a change of 9.6%

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 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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