Hinds County, Mississippi

Religious Traditions, 2010

91,042	31,864	29,101	520	7,293	4,672	80,793
Evangelical Protestant	Black Protestant	Mainline Protestant	Orthodox	Catholic	Other	Unclaimed

Congregational adherents include all full members, their children, and others who regularly attend services. The 2010 reports contain incomplete counts of congregations and adherents belonging to the eight largest historically African-American denominations. These denominations are not included in the 2000 reports and are largely missing from the 1990 and 1980 reports.
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Reports

Religious Bodies	Tradition	Family	Congregations	Adherents	Adherence Rate^†
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	Baptist	70	49,361	201.2
Non-denominational	Evangelical Protestant	----	63	26,270	107.1
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	Methodist/Pietist	38	22,068	90.0
National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.	Black Protestant	Baptist	37	18,094	73.8
Catholic Church	Catholic	Catholicism	9	7,293	29.7
African Methodist Episcopal Church	Black Protestant	Methodist/Pietist	9	5,447	22.2
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	Episcopalianism/Anglicanism	10	5,085	20.7
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	13	4,742	19.3
Church of God in Christ	Black Protestant	Pentecostal	20	3,836	15.6
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	Baptist	15	3,656	14.9
Christian Methodist Episcopal Church	Black Protestant	Methodist/Pietist	7	1,909	7.8
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	Adventist	3	1,861	7.6
National Missionary Baptist Convention, Inc.	Black Protestant	Baptist	10	1,821	7.4
Hindu, Indian-American Hindu Temple Assoc.	Other	Other Groups	1	1,742	7.1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	4	1,120	4.6
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	6	1,049	4.3
Congregational Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	Methodist/Pietist	2	953	3.9
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other	Latter-day Saints	2	898	3.7
Muslim Estimate	Other	Other Groups	2	808	3.3
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	Holiness	3	787	3.2
Reform Judaism	Other	Judaism	1	578	2.4
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	Lutheran	3	572	2.3
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Black Protestant	Methodist/Pietist	4	569	2.3
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	Baptist	4	539	2.2
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	3	516	2.1
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	1	472	1.9
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox)	1	370	1.5
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	Lutheran	2	289	1.2
Salvation Army	Evangelical Protestant	Holiness	1	283	1.2
Hindu, Traditional Temples	Other	Other Groups	1	200	0.8
Progressive National Baptist Convention, Inc.	Black Protestant	Baptist	1	188	0.8
Community of Christ	Other	Latter-day Saints	1	187	0.8
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	Holiness	2	150	0.6
Orthodox Church in America	Orthodox	Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox)	1	150	0.6
Bahá'í	Other	Other Groups	2	143	0.6
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	3	103	0.4
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	2	97	0.4
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	Holiness	1	81	0.3
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other	Liberal	1	77	0.3
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	Baptist	1	50	0.2
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	European Free-Church	1	30	0.1
Hindu, Post Renaissance	Other	Other Groups	1	25	0.1
Buddhism, Theravada	Other	Other Groups	1	14	0.1
International Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	Baptist	1	9	0.0
Alliance of Baptists	Mainline Protestant	Baptist	2	---	---
Association of Reformed Baptist Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	Baptist	1	---	---
Church of Christ (Holiness), U.S.A	Evangelical Protestant	Holiness	14	---	---
Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith, Inc.	Black Protestant	Pentecostal	2	---	---
Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches	Evangelical Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	1	---	---
Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship	Black Protestant	Baptist	6	---	---
Independent Baptist Fellowship International	Evangelical Protestant	Baptist	1	---	---
Jehovah's Witnesses	Other	Adventist	6	---	---
Reformed Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	Baptist	1	---	---
Sikh	Other	Other Groups	1	---	---
United Pentecostal Church International	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	6	---	---
		Totals:	405	164,492

The population of Hinds County, Mississippi was 245,285 in 2010; in 2000 it was 250,800. The total population changed -2.2%. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (164,492) included 67.1% of the total population in 2010.

^* In an effort to better match the ASARB standards for adherents, a few religious bodies changed the way their adherents were reported in 2010, including the Catholic Church, Amish groups, Friends groups, Jewish groups, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Non-denominational Christian Churches, and the United Methodist Church. This change does not affect any of the data in the newly released 2010 U.S. Religion Census: Religious Congregations & Membership Study. In fact, the data for these groups are now more comparable to that of other bodies than it was in previous decadal reports.

However, the change in methodology can distort assessments on growth or decline between 2000 and 2010 for each of these groups. County-level 2000 data using the new methodology are not readily available. ASARB staff has adjusted some 2000 county-level adherent statistics to allow for a more accurate picture on growth or decline. The revised maps and charts are now available on-line at www.usreligioncensus.org for those who are interested in these trends.

Source

2010 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and include statistics for 236 religious groups, providing information on the number of their congregations and adherents within each state and county in the United States. Clifford Grammich, Kirk Hadaway, Richard Houseal, Dale E. Jones, Alexei Krindatch, Richie Stanley and Richard H. Taylor supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in 2010 U.S. Religion Census: Religious Congregations & Membership Study, published by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). [More information on the data collection]

^†The adherence rate provides the number of adherents of a particular group per 1,000 population. For example, in 2010 the Episcopal Church had an adherence rate of 7.6 in Autauga County, Alabama. This means that about 8 out of every 1,000 people in Autauga County were Episcopalian.