Knox County, Tennessee
Denominational Groups, 2000
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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
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| Religious Bodies |
Theology |
Congregations |
Adherents |
Adherence Rate† |
| Southern Baptist Convention |
Evangelical Protestant |
180 |
125,315 |
373.2 |
| United Methodist Church, The |
Mainline Protestant |
70 |
30,876 |
92.0 |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) |
Mainline Protestant |
33 |
10,589 |
31.5 |
| Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) |
Evangelical Protestant |
19 |
3,051 |
9.1 |
| Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
16 |
2,869 |
8.6 |
| African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
12 |
9,211 |
27.4 |
| Assemblies of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
10 |
1,250 |
3.7 |
| Episcopal Church |
Mainline Protestant |
9 |
4,814 |
14.3 |
| Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
9 |
6,165 |
18.4 |
| Christian Churches and Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
9 |
1,696 |
5.1 |
| National Association of Free Will Baptists |
Evangelical Protestant |
6 |
940 |
2.8 |
| Cumberland Presbyterian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
5 |
2,446 |
7.3 |
| Independent, Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
5 |
2,800 |
8.3 |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
5 |
2,563 |
7.6 |
| Catholic Church |
Catholic |
5 |
10,356 |
30.8 |
| Seventh-day Adventist Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
5 |
1,247 |
3.7 |
| Baptist Missionary Association of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
4 |
583 |
1.7 |
| Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) |
Mainline Protestant |
4 |
794 |
2.4 |
| Church of God of Prophecy |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
176 |
0.5 |
| Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
0 |
0.0 |
| Church of the Nazarene |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
350 |
1.0 |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The |
Other Theology |
3 |
1,296 |
3.9 |
| Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
969 |
2.9 |
| Friends (Quakers) |
Mainline Protestant |
3 |
157 |
0.5 |
| Presbyterian Church in America |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
3,124 |
9.3 |
| Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
132 |
0.4 |
| Mennonite Church USA |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
96 |
0.3 |
| Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations |
Other Theology |
2 |
675 |
2.0 |
| Primitive Baptists Associations |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
124 |
0.4 |
| Jewish Estimate |
Other Theology |
2 |
748 |
2.2 |
| Church of Christ, Scientist |
Other Theology |
1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| American Baptist Churches in the USA |
Mainline Protestant |
1 |
606 |
1.8 |
| Evangelical Free Church of America, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
295 |
0.9 |
| Salvation Army, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
173 |
0.5 |
| Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America |
Orthodox |
1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
98 |
0.3 |
| International Church of the Foursquare Gospel |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
23 |
0.1 |
| International Pentecostal Holiness Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
29 |
0.1 |
| United Church of Christ |
Mainline Protestant |
1 |
142 |
0.4 |
| Evangelical Presbyterian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
42 |
0.1 |
| Free Methodist Church of North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
18 |
0.1 |
| Black Baptists Estimate |
Evangelical Protestant |
n.a. |
9,237 |
27.5 |
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Totals (Unadjusted)*:
| 448 |
236,075 |
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The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 335,749. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (236,075) include 70.3% 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.
