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Clarksville-Hopkinsville, TN-KY MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

67,672 16,649   7,348 2,112 113,252
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 2 251 1.5
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 6 2,358 13.9
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 13,157 77.7
Catholic Church Catholic 2 3,582 21.1
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 1 55 0.3
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 9 1,842 10.9
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 114 0.7
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 1 n.a. n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 3 204 1.2
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 3 638 3.8
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 4 239 1.4
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 4 1,430 8.4
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 6 1,301 7.7
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 22 3,376 19.9
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 11 2,100 12.4
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 3 655 3.9
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 1 61 0.4
Independent Fundamental Churches of America Evangelical Protestant 1 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 300 1.8
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 1 25 0.2
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 2 380 2.2
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant 9 572 3.4
Old Order Amish Church Evangelical Protestant 2 200 1.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 7 1,564 9.2
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 1 0 0.0
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 2 179 1.1
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 4 260 1.5
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 68 38,843 229.2
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 13 0.1
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 48 11,457 67.6
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 226 85,156  
The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 169,439. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (85,156) include 50.3% 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.