Johnson City-Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

181,108	63,039	195	6,496	2,540	226,713
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	-1	+277	12.7%
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+838	14.8%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+87	43.9%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-1	-132	-30.6%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+2,856	14.8%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-484	-35.5%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+885	33.4%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	0	+22	4.5%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+1	-10	-0.6%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+173	17.1%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	+607	75.4%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+118	3.8%
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-28	-19.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	+1	-76	-2.8%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+2	0.1%
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+131	214.8%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+67	837.5%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-300	-11.5%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+531	356.4%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	-1	-140	-66.7%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-162	-24.7%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	-6	-3,010	-23.5%
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-93	-79.5%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-2	-1,322	-10.6%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	-3	-109	-4.5%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+430	70.3%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	-3	-388	-45.6%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+10	+6,439	5.7%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	-1	-0.6%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-5	-1,186	-2.5%
	Totals:	+12	+6,022	+2.5%

The population of these 8 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 436,047; in 2000 it was 480,091. The total population changed 10.1%. The adherent totals for 1990 (251,102) represent 57.6% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (253,378) include 52.8% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 30 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 30 groups had 238,166 adherents in 1990 and 244,188 adherents in 2000, for a change of 2.5%

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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