Anderson County, Tennessee

Denominational Groups, 2000

39,756	8,233		3,452	1,123	18,766
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	66	31,065	461.3
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	18	6,992	103.8
Catholic Church	Catholic	3	3,206	47.6
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,158	17.2
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	2	998	14.8
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	2	758	11.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	609	9.0
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	439	6.5
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	360	5.4
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	316	4.7
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	270	4.0
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	269	4.0
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	1	248	3.7
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	171	2.5
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	166	2.5
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	4	146	2.2
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	1	137	2.0
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	1	130	1.9
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	1	94	1.4
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	1	24	0.4
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	118	47,556

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 67,346. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (47,556) include 70.6% 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.