Carter County, Tennessee has 31 churches in the Churches List directory, 0 of them verified and 4 with a published website. The 2020 US Religion Census counted 126 congregations and 26,075 adherents across 24 religious bodies in the county. That is 463 adherents per 1,000 residents of its 56,348 people.
| Religious body | Congregations | Adherents | Per 1,000 pop. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southern Baptist Convention | 44 | 14,295 | 253.7 |
| Christian Churches and Churches of Christ | 22 | 3,305 | 58.7 |
| Non-denominational Christian Churches | 11 | 2,370 | 42.1 |
| National Association of Free Will Baptists | 15 | 1,370 | 24.3 |
| United Methodist Church | 7 | 1,160 | 20.6 |
| Churches of Christ | 4 | 705 | 12.5 |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 1 | 506 | 9.0 |
| Catholic Church | 1 | 350 | 6.2 |
| Jehovah's Witnesses | 1 | 258 | 4.6 |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) | 4 | 258 | 4.6 |
| National Missionary Baptist Convention, Inc. | 1 | 250 | 4.4 |
| Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) | 3 | 237 | 4.2 |
Source: 2020 US Religion Census (Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies). Per-1,000 rates divide reported adherents by the county's 2020 Census population (56,348). Largest 12 bodies by adherents shown.
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Directory traditions here: Baptist Churches (8) · Methodist (6) · Evangelical (4) · Christian (3) · Seventh Day Adventist (2) · Community (1) · Church of the Nazarene (1) · Non-Denominational (1) · Foursquare (1) · African Methodist Episcopal (1)
Directory listings are mapped to Carter County through the US Census Bureau's 2020 ZCTA-to-county relationship file: each ZIP Code Tabulation Area is assigned to the county holding the largest share of its land area, so a small number of churches in ZIP codes that straddle county lines may be attributed to a neighboring county. Congregation and adherent counts come from the 2020 US Religion Census and are reported by the religious bodies themselves. Population is the county's April 2020 decennial-census base from the US Census Bureau's population-estimates program; per-1,000 adherence rates divide reported adherents by that figure. Corrections to any listing go through the corrections page.