Top 15 Reporting Religious Bodies Charlottesville, VA
Church, Christian, or Religious Body	Adherents (and rank)						Congregations
	in 2000			in 1990			in 2000	in 1990
Southern Baptist Convention	17,330	(1)		18,672	(1)		48	48
Catholic Church, The	9,414	(2)		5,549	(4)		8	7
United Methodist Church, The	7,893	(3)		9,273	(2)		30	33
Episcopal Church	5,211	(4)		4,643	(5)		18	16
Presbyterian Church (USA)	3,839	(5)		3,622	(6)		9	8
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	2,439	(6)		1,625	(7)		4	3
Presbyterian Church in America	1,583	(7)		1,505	(8)		2	1
Jewish Estimate	1,500	(8)		950	(10)		2	1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	1,330	(9)		902	(12)		3	3
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	1,032	(10)		581	(14)		4	5
Church of the Brethren	868	(11)		909	(11)		7	8
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	806	(12)		892	(13)		2	2
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	405	(13)		NR			1	1
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	396	(14)		441	(16)		1	1
Assemblies of God	388	(15)		225	(19)		2	1

Metropolitan Population, 2000 Census:		159,576
Percent of Population Claimed by Reporting Groups:		36.5%

National Average: 50.2% claimed

Reporting Groups (149 possible):	43	(34 of 133 in 1990)
Total Reported Adherents:	58,199	(60,190 in 1990)
Total Reported Congregations:	181	(161 in 1990)

The metro area included 4 counties (or equivalent) at the time of the 2000 census:
	Albemarle County, VA; Fluvanna County, VA; Greene County, VA; Charlottesville city, VA
	The newly published book Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000 includes a CD that allows users to determine such lists for any selected group of counties.
Source:	Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000 Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990
	Both studies, copyrighted by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies, are published by the Glenmary Research Center, Nashville, Tenn. More information is available at www.glenmary.org/grc.