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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 % Change
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +3 +1,463 152.0%
Catholic Church Catholic 0 +3,428 87.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +106 n.a.
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant +1 -247 -11.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +1 +412 749.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant +2 +32 29.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 0 +552 134.0%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +4 +262 n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +2 +1,056 113.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 0 +1,037 98.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +1 -378 -11.0%
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant +1 -134 -8.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 +104 14.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant +1 +197 n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +1 +37 n.a.
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +84 12.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant +6 +795 n.a.
Old Order Amish Church Evangelical Protestant +2 +134 84.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -6 +148 9.0%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +1 +146 n.a.
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +135 81.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +2 +243 96.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +16 +22,246 75.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology +1 +75 625.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -5 -903 -7.0%
  Totals: +36 +31,030 +50.9%

The population of these 2 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 150,220; in 2000 it was 207,033. The total population changed 22.2%. The adherent totals for 1980 (61,244) represent 40.8% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (93,781) include 45.3% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 25 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 25 groups had 60,993 adherents in 1980 and 92,023 adherents in 2000, for a change of 50.9%

Sources

The 2000 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and includes statistics for 149 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Dale E. Jones, Sherri Doty, Clifford Grammich, James E. Horsch, Richard Houseal, Mac Lynn, John P. Marcum, Kenneth M. Sanchagrin and Richard H. Taylor supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States, 2000, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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