McMinn County, Tennessee

Denominational Groups, 2000

29,167	4,968		587	2	14,291
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	64	24,882	587.1
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	21	4,652	109.8
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	10	665	15.7
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,070	25.3
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	5	428	10.1
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	4	238	5.6
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	4	726	17.1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	3	274	6.5
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	230	5.4
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	2	156	3.7
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	1	267	6.3
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	190	4.5
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	126	3.0
Catholic Church	Catholic	1	324	7.6
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	71	1.7
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	464	11.0
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	129	34,763

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 42,383. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (34,763) include 82.0% 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.