Jackson, TN MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

43,199	11,388		2,969	487	49,334
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	0	+348	63.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+1,582	114.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	-29	-37.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-282	-47.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+44	10.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+64	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	+157	61.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-21	-16.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+375	8.0%
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-76	-9.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+1	+164	n.a.
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	-64	-52.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+65	20.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+122	n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-2	-20	-2.0%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+96	246.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+13	9.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+201	73.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+6,256	23.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-3	+189	2.0%
	Totals:	+3	+9,184	+19.1%

The population of these 2 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 87,273; in 2000 it was 107,377. The total population changed 18.3%. The adherent totals for 1980 (48,067) represent 55.1% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (58,043) include 54.1% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 20 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 20 groups had 48,031 adherents in 1980 and 57,215 adherents in 2000, for a change of 19.1%

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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