Top 15 Reporting Religious Bodies Chattanooga, TN
Church, Christian, or Religious Body	Adherents (and rank)						Congregations
	in 2000			in 1990			in 2000	in 1990
Southern Baptist Convention	109,092	(1)		104,299	(1)		196	187
United Methodist Church, The	32,674	(2)		33,677	(3)		88	95
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	19,750	(3)		42,330	(2)		2	7
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	14,716	(4)		12,092	(5)		77	78
Catholic Church, The	11,330	(5)		11,934	(6)		10	8
Churches of Christ	9,316	(6)		10,090	(7)		65	66
Seventh-day Adventist Church	8,220	(7)		7,674	(8)		20	21
Presbyterian Church in America	7,431	(8)		6,043	(9)		16	15
Episcopal Church	6,074	(9)		5,929	(10)		13	13
Presbyterian Church (USA)	4,257	(10)		4,672	(11)		15	18
Church of the Nazarene	3,307	(11)		2,911	(12)		18	19
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	2,144	(12)		2,421	(13)		13	12
Muslims Estimate	2,000	(13)		NA			2	NA
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	1,933	(14)		1,830	(15)		4	5
Jewish Estimate	1,510	(15)		1,446	(17)		3	3

Metropolitan Population, 2000 Census:		465,161
Percent of Population Claimed by Reporting Groups:		52.7%

National Average: 50.2% claimed

Reporting Groups (149 possible):	48	(41 of 133 in 1990)
Total Reported Adherents:	245,174	(283,899 in 1990)
Total Reported Congregations:	650	(629 in 1990)

The metro area included 5 counties (or equivalent) at the time of the 2000 census:
	Catoosa County, GA; Dade County, GA; Walker County, GA; Hamilton County, TN; Marion County, TN
	The newly published book Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000 includes a CD that allows users to determine such lists for any selected group of counties.
Source:	Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000 Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990
	Both studies, copyrighted by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies, are published by the Glenmary Research Center, Nashville, Tenn. More information is available at www.glenmary.org/grc.