Chattanooga, TN-GA MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

182,854	45,532	309	11,330	5,149	219,987
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	196	109,092	234.5
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	88	32,674	70.2
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	19,750	42.5
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	77	14,716	31.6
Catholic Church	Catholic	10	11,330	24.4
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	65	9,316	20.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	19	7,731	16.6
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	16	7,431	16.0
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	13	6,074	13.1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	15	4,257	9.2
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	18	3,307	7.1
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	13	2,144	4.6
Muslim Estimate	Other Theology	2	2,000	4.3
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,933	4.2
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	3	1,510	3.3
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	11	1,385	3.0
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	6	1,374	3.0
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	969	2.1
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	3	950	2.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	3	929	2.0
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	4	866	1.9
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	15	838	1.8
National Primitive Baptist Convention, USA	Evangelical Protestant	7	719	1.6
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	639	1.4
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	389	0.8
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	7	384	0.8
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	3	356	0.8
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	309	0.7
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	2	292	0.6
International Council of Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	231	0.5
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	184	0.4
Vineyard USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	163	0.4
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	145	0.3
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	125	0.3
Bahá'í	Other Theology	2	120	0.3
Duck River and Kindred Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	2	90	0.2
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	78	0.2
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	68	0.2
Community of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	59	0.1
International Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	61	0.1
Progressive Primitive Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	54	0.1
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	47	0.1
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	1	42	0.1
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	43	0.1
Southwide Baptist Fellowship	Evangelical Protestant	14	n.a.	n.a.
Calvary Chapel Fellowship Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Reformed Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Primitive Baptist Churches--Old Line	Evangelical Protestant	4	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	650	245,174
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		300,944

The population of these 5 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 424,347; in 2000 it was 465,161. The total population changed 9.6%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (245,174) include 52.7% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (300,944) include 64.7% of the population.

Source

^*The “Unadjusted Totals” come from the 1990 and 2000 data collected by representatives of the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). While quite comprehensive, this data excludes most of the historically African-American denominations and some other major groups. As a result, these numbers will be an underestimate of the total adherence rate, particularly in areas with a large African-American population. The 2000 data included 149 religious groups and the final results are published in Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Copyright © 2002, All rights reserved. The 1990 data included 132 groups and the final results are published in Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990 Copyright © 1990, All rights reserved. Published by Glenmary Research Center, 1312 Fifth Ave., North, Nashville, TN 37208. www.glenmary.org/grc [More information on the data collection]

^**The “Adjusted Totals” include all adherents in the denominations counted by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and estimates adherent totals for the historically African-American denominations and other religious groups not listed in the ASARB totals. An article by Roger Finke and Christopher P. Scheitle (2005) reviews how these estimates were computed.

^†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.

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