Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod States (1990)

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Using data from the 1990 Religious Congregations and Membership Study, this list ranks U.S. states on the highest total number of adherents and the highest percent of the population in the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. You can sort the list by clicking on the column headings.

Congregational "adherents" include all full members, their children, and others who regularly attend services.

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Ranking	State	Adherents	Percent
30	Alabama	13,237	0.3
22	Alaska	3,404	0.6
21	Arizona	23,708	0.7
23	Arkansas	14,154	0.6
26	California	143,987	0.5
14	Colorado	47,262	1.4
27	Connecticut	15,206	0.5
30	Delaware	2,172	0.3
24	Florida	67,645	0.5
38	Georgia	8,997	0.1
35	Hawaii	1,852	0.2
15	Idaho	13,303	1.3
9	Illinois	295,820	2.6
13	Indiana	109,895	2.0
5	Iowa	124,021	4.5
10	Kansas	63,145	2.6
37	Kentucky	5,637	0.2
28	Louisiana	19,102	0.5
41	Maine	490	0.0
20	Maryland	31,393	0.7
39	Massachusetts	7,053	0.1
8	Michigan	250,141	2.7
3	Minnesota	215,564	4.9
36	Mississippi	4,183	0.2
7	Missouri	145,741	2.9
12	Montana	16,172	2.0
1	Nebraska	114,944	7.3
24	Nevada	6,219	0.5
35	New Hampshire	1,908	0.2
30	New Jersey	25,387	0.3
29	New Mexico	6,604	0.4
25	New York	90,837	0.5
31	North Carolina	19,275	0.3
6	North Dakota	25,691	4.0
19	Ohio	83,336	0.8
19	Oklahoma	24,303	0.8
16	Oregon	26,159	0.9
34	Pennsylvania	23,850	0.2
38	Rhode Island	1,415	0.1
40	South Carolina	3,026	0.1
4	South Dakota	32,968	4.7
31	Tennessee	13,981	0.3
18	Texas	134,280	0.8
33	Utah	4,547	0.3
40	Vermont	494	0.1
32	Virginia	17,413	0.3
17	Washington	41,916	0.9
41	West Virginia	628	0.0
2	Wisconsin	248,876	5.1
11	Wyoming	11,228	2.5

Source

The data presented in this list 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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