Webster County, Missouri

Denominational Groups, 2000

12,592	2,427		546	311	15,169
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	23	6,455	271.8
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	14	994	41.9
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	12	1,864	78.5
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	9	450	18.9
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	6	436	18.4
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	600	25.3
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	3	601	25.3
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	3	584	24.6
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	3	148	6.2
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	208	8.8
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	128	5.4
Catholic Church	Catholic	1	444	18.7
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	144	6.1
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	1	10	0.4
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	263	11.1
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	650	27.4
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	109	4.6
Primitive Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	1	12	0.5
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	153	6.4
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	89	14,253

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 23,753. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (14,253) include 60.0% 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.