Top 15 Reporting Religious Bodies Clarksville-Hopkinsville, TN-KY
Church, Christian, or Religious Body	Adherents (and rank)						Congregations
	in 2000			in 1990			in 2000	in 1990
Southern Baptist Convention	51,836	(1)		38,843	(1)		79	68
United Methodist Church, The	11,803	(2)		11,457	(3)		45	48
Catholic Church, The	7,348	(3)		3,582	(4)		3	2
Churches of Christ	3,196	(4)		3,376	(5)		20	22
Assemblies of God	2,424	(5)		2,358	(6)		7	6
Church of the Nazarene	2,094	(6)		1,301	(11)		6	6
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the United States and Canada	2,017	(7)		1,842	(8)		10	9
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	1,993	(8)		1,430	(10)		5	4
Presbyterian Church (USA)	1,787	(9)		1,564	(9)		6	7
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	1,589	(10)		2,100	(7)		10	11
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	965	(11)		638	(13)		3	3
Episcopal Church	845	(12)		655	(12)		3	3
National Association of Free Will Baptists	795	(13)		572	(14)		6	9
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	794	(14)		380	(15)		2	2
Vineyard USA	713	(15)		NA			1	NA

Metropolitan Population, 2000 Census:		207,033
Percent of Population Claimed by Reporting Groups:		45.3%

National Average: 50.2% claimed

Reporting Groups (149 possible):	33	(30 of 133 in 1990)
Total Reported Adherents:	93,781	(85,156 in 1990)
Total Reported Congregations:	239	(226 in 1990)

The metro area included 2 counties (or equivalent) at the time of the 2000 census:
	Christian County, KY; Montgomery 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.