Lafayette County, Missouri

Denominational Groups, 2000

12,398	6,005		1,491	262	12,804
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^†
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	5	375	12.1
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	295	9.5
Catholic Church	Catholic	5	1,839	59.1
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	6	1,460	46.9
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	177	5.7
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	228	7.3
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	227	7.3
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	1	79	2.5
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	379	12.2
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	8	4,411	141.8
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	4	493	15.9
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	16	6,397	205.7
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	7	2,569	82.6
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	11	2,633	84.6
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	67	21,562

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 31,107. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (21,562) include 69.3% 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.