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Davidson County, Tennessee

Denominational Groups, 2000

193,657 58,002 150 28,091 17,412 272,579
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
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 1 210 0.4
American Baptist Association, The Evangelical Protestant 5 1,000 2.1
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 2 2,282 4.8
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 13 1,987 4.2
Catholic Church Catholic 16 21,229 44.4
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 2 185 0.4
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 9 3,591 7.5
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 4 684 1.4
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 3 543 1.1
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 4 852 1.8
Church of God (Seventh Day) Evangelical Protestant 1 9 0.0
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 2 873 1.8
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 31 7,202 15.1
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 112 41,857 87.6
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 13 4,645 9.7
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 12 6,495 13.6
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 6 2,379 5.0
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 50 0.1
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 1 34 0.1
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 1 23 0.1
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 2 2,101 4.4
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 4 965 2.0
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 23 11,476 24.0
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 2 197 0.4
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 10 3,984 8.3
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 96 88,952 186.2
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 255 0.5
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 4 435 0.9
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 74 41,772 87.4
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant 1 150 0.3
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 118 0.3
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 457 246,535  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 477,811. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (246,535) include 51.6% 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.