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 Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	2	1,855	3.6
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	13	3,931	7.7
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	48,213	94.4
Catholic Church	Catholic	16	23,514	46.0
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	200	0.4
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	10	3,287	6.4
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	3	648	1.3
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	123	0.2
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	2	n.a.	n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	3	366	0.7
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,172	2.3
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	1	18	0.0
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	12	0.0
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	7	414	0.8
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	4	1,466	2.9
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	22	0.0
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	28	7,243	14.2
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	116	41,607	81.5
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	12	4,469	8.8
Duck River and Kindred Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	1	160	0.3
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	13	7,079	13.9
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	6	1,975	3.9
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	81	0.2
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	5	4,325	8.5
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	3	2,250	4.4
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	1	23	0.1
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	43	0.1
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	5	2,887	5.7
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,200	2.4
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	45	0.1
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	18	2,588	5.1
Old Missionary Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	11	2,731	5.4
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	76	0.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	23	11,287	22.1
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	3	1,909	3.7
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	236	0.5
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	9	5,078	9.9
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	92	101,508	198.7
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	467	0.9
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	3	505	1.0
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	71	36,991	72.4
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	242	0.5
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	199	0.4
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	512	322,655

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 510,784. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (322,655) include 63.2% of the total population in 1990.

Source

The 1990 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and include statistics for 132 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Martin B. Bradley, Norman M. Green, Jr., Dale E. Jones, Mac Lynn, and Lou McNeil supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1990, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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^†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.