Audrain County, Missouri

Denominational Groups, 2000

9,387	4,448		3,517	269	8,232
Evangelical Protestant	Mainline Protestant	Orthodox	Catholic	Other	Unclaimed

Congregational "adherents" include all full members, their children, and others who regularly attend services. The historically African American denominations are not included in the 2000 congregation and membership totals. Many are also missing in 1990 and most historically African American denominations are missing in the 1980 reports.
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Reports

Religious Bodies	Theology	Congregations	Adherents	Adherence Rate^†
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	16	6,482	274.7
Catholic Church	Catholic	4	2,250	95.3
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,886	79.9
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	7	1,702	72.1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	7	1,681	71.2
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	6	1,353	57.3
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	2	471	20.0
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	375	15.9
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	2	318	13.5
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	2	206	8.7
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	1	81	3.4
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	70	3.0
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	1	69	2.9
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	60	2.5
Fire Baptized Holiness Church, (Wesleyan), The	Evangelical Protestant	1	14	0.6
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	60	17,018

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 23,599. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (17,018) include 72.1% of the total population in 1990.

Source

The 1990 data 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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^†The adherence rate provides the number of adherents of a particular group per 1,000 population. For example, in 2000 the Episcopal Church had an adherence rate of approximately 8 (8.1) in Autauga County, Alabama. This means that 8 out of every 1,000 people in Autauga county are Episcopalian.