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
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+11	+12,993	33.5%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+66	2.8%
Catholic Church	Catholic	+1	+3,766	105.1%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	+1	+175	9.5%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+353	309.6%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+1	+563	39.4%
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+94	47.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+237	91.2%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	+1	+74	569.2%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+51	92.7%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-61	-29.9%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+327	51.3%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	0	+23	9.6%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	+793	61.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	+190	29.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+136	223.0%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	0	+12	48.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+414	108.9%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+146	n.a.
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+122	68.2%
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-511	-24.3%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-1	+223	14.3%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-180	-5.3%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	-3	+223	39.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-3	+346	3.0%
	Totals:	+9	+20,575	+28.8%

The population of these 2 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 169,439; in 2000 it was 207,033. The total population changed 22.2%. The adherent totals for 1990 (85,156) represent 50.3% of the 1990 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 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 25 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 25 groups had 71,448 adherents in 1990 and 92,023 adherents in 2000, for a change of 28.8%

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 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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