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Etowah County, Alabama - County Membership Report (2020)

Exact definitions of "congregations" and "adherents" vary by religious body. Congregations may be parishes, churches, synagogues, mosques, temples, or another site where a religious body has regularly scheduled worship services. Adherents generally are members, children who are not members, and others who are not members but are considered participants in the congregation.

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Religious Bodies Tradition Family Congregations Adherents Adherence Rate
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant Baptist Family 104 46,232 446.96
Non-denominational Christian Churches Evangelical Protestant Other Groups Family 24 12,540 121.23
Catholic Church Catholic Catholic Liturgical Family 1 5,020 48.53
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant Pentecostal Family 17 3,869 37.40
United Methodist Church Mainline Protestant Methodist Family 25 3,562 34.44
National Missionary Baptist Convention of America Black Protestant Baptist Family 9 2,092 20.23
National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. Black Protestant Baptist Family 8 2,079 20.10
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Latter-day Saints Latter-day Saints (Mormonism) Family 2 1,198 11.58
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant Restorationists Family 12 1,192 11.52
Assemblies of God, General Council of the Evangelical Protestant Pentecostal Family 7 908 8.78
Jehovah's Witnesses Jehovah's Witnesses Adventist Family 3 704 6.81
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant Anglican/Episcopal Family 2 626 6.05
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant Presbyterian/Reformed Family 1 553 5.35
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant Presbyterian/Reformed Family 2 482 4.66
Christian Methodist Episcopal Church Black Protestant Methodist Family 3 442 4.27
African Methodist Episcopal Church Black Protestant Methodist Family 2 376 3.64
Muslim Estimate Islam Islam Family 1 370 3.58
Church of God in Christ Black Protestant Pentecostal Family 2 358 3.46
Church of our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith, Inc. Black Protestant Pentecostal Family 2 252 2.44
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant Adventist Family 3 223 2.16
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant Holiness Family 2 211 2.04
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS) Evangelical Protestant Lutheran Family 3 211 2.04
Association of Vineyard Churches Evangelical Protestant Pentecostal Family 1 120 1.16
Salvation Army Evangelical Protestant Holiness Family 1 70 0.68
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant Holiness Family 1 68 0.66
Christian and Missionary Alliance Evangelical Protestant Holiness Family 1 60 0.58
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant Presbyterian/Reformed Family 1 25 0.24
Baha'i Faith Other Other Groups Family 0 7 0.07
Advent Christian Church Evangelical Protestant Adventist Family 1 0 0.00
United Church of God Other Christians Adventist Family 1
Westminster Evangelical Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant Presbyterian/Reformed Family 1
Congregational Methodist Church Evangelical Protestant Methodist Family 1
Congregational Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant Pentecostal Family 2
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant Pentecostal Family 2
Bible Methodist Connection of Churches Evangelical Protestant Holiness Family 1
United Pentecostal Church International Evangelical Protestant Pentecostal Family 2
           

Religious Traditions (1980 - 2020), Percent of Population


The population of this county was 103,436 in 2020. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (83,850) included 81.1% of the total population in 2020. The adherence rate is the number of adherents of a given group per 1,000 people in the general population.

Note that data collection methods for religious bodies change over time, affecting the comparability of statistics. For further information, see the U.S. Religion Census website at https://www.usreligioncensus.org/.

The 2020 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and include data for 372 religious bodies or groups. Of these, the ASARB was able to gather data on congregations and adherents for 217 and on congregations only for 155.

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