County Membership Report
Religious Traditions, 2010
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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
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| Religious Bodies |
Tradition |
Family |
Congregations |
Adherents |
Adherence Rate† |
| Non-denominational |
Evangelical Protestant |
---- |
44 |
14,233 |
44.58 |
| Catholic Church |
Catholic |
Catholicism |
39 |
49,014 |
153.51 |
| Southern Baptist Convention |
Evangelical Protestant |
Baptist |
37 |
7,995 |
25.04 |
| National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. |
Black Protestant |
Baptist |
32 |
20,526 |
64.29 |
| Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
Lutheran |
25 |
6,967 |
21.82 |
| Church of God in Christ |
Black Protestant |
Pentecostal |
15 |
2,234 |
7.00 |
| United Church of Christ |
Mainline Protestant |
Presbyterian-Reformed |
15 |
2,185 |
6.84 |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) |
Mainline Protestant |
Presbyterian-Reformed |
14 |
1,951 |
6.11 |
| United Methodist Church, The |
Mainline Protestant |
Methodist/Pietist |
14 |
3,768 |
11.80 |
| African Methodist Episcopal Church |
Black Protestant |
Methodist/Pietist |
11 |
4,791 |
15.00 |
| National Missionary Baptist Convention, Inc. |
Black Protestant |
Baptist |
11 |
1,774 |
5.56 |
| American Baptist Churches in the USA |
Mainline Protestant |
Baptist |
10 |
5,834 |
18.27 |
| Muslim Estimate |
Other |
Other Groups |
10 |
3,356 |
10.51 |
| Progressive National Baptist Convention, Inc. |
Black Protestant |
Baptist |
9 |
2,311 |
7.24 |
| Assemblies of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
Pentecostal |
6 |
325 |
1.02 |
| Buddhism, Mahayana |
Other |
Other Groups |
6 |
986 |
3.09 |
| Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) |
Mainline Protestant |
Baptist |
6 |
982 |
3.08 |
| Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
Baptist |
6 |
592 |
1.85 |
| Episcopal Church |
Mainline Protestant |
Episcopalianism/Anglicanism |
6 |
1,578 |
4.94 |
| Jehovah's Witnesses |
Other |
Adventist |
6 |
--- |
--- |
| Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship |
Black Protestant |
Baptist |
5 |
--- |
--- |
| Christian Methodist Episcopal Church |
Black Protestant |
Methodist/Pietist |
4 |
1,852 |
5.80 |
| Church of Christ (Holiness), U.S.A. |
Evangelical Protestant |
Holiness |
4 |
--- |
--- |
| Church of the Nazarene |
Evangelical Protestant |
Holiness |
4 |
243 |
0.76 |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
Lutheran |
4 |
648 |
2.03 |
| Presbyterian Church in America |
Evangelical Protestant |
Presbyterian-Reformed |
4 |
615 |
1.93 |
| African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church |
Black Protestant |
Methodist/Pietist |
3 |
358 |
1.12 |
| Christian Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
Ind. Fundamentalist |
3 |
--- |
--- |
| Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) |
Evangelical Protestant |
Holiness |
3 |
630 |
1.97 |
| Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith, Inc. |
Black Protestant |
Pentecostal |
3 |
--- |
--- |
| Hindu, Indian-American Hindu Temple Assoc. |
Other |
Other Groups |
3 |
2,050 |
6.42 |
| National Baptist Convention of America, Inc. |
Black Protestant |
Baptist |
3 |
717 |
2.25 |
| Christian Churches and Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
Baptist |
2 |
27 |
0.08 |
| Church of Christ, Scientist |
Other |
Christian Science |
2 |
--- |
--- |
| Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) |
Evangelical Protestant |
Pentecostal |
2 |
392 |
1.23 |
| Evangelical Free Church of America, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
Methodist/Pietist |
2 |
157 |
0.49 |
| Free Methodist Church of North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
Holiness |
2 |
61 |
0.19 |
| Grace Gospel Fellowship |
Evangelical Protestant |
Ind. Fundamentalist |
2 |
--- |
--- |
| Hindu, Post Renaissance |
Other |
Other Groups |
2 |
41 |
0.13 |
| Mennonite Church USA |
Evangelical Protestant |
European Free-Church |
2 |
142 |
0.44 |
| Orthodox Church in America |
Orthodox |
Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox) |
2 |
85 |
0.27 |
| Seventh-day Adventist Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
Adventist |
2 |
982 |
3.08 |
| United Pentecostal Church International |
Evangelical Protestant |
Pentecostal |
2 |
--- |
--- |
| Alliance of Baptists |
Mainline Protestant |
Baptist |
1 |
--- |
--- |
| Bahá'í |
Other |
Other Groups |
1 |
159 |
0.50 |
| Buddhism, Theravada |
Other |
Other Groups |
1 |
15 |
0.05 |
| Buddhism, Vajrayana |
Other |
Other Groups |
1 |
62 |
0.19 |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The |
Other |
Latter-day Saints |
1 |
685 |
2.15 |
| Converge Worldwide/Baptist General Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
Baptist |
1 |
90 |
0.28 |
| Evangelical Presbyterian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
Presbyterian-Reformed |
1 |
29 |
0.09 |
| Friends General Conference* |
Mainline Protestant |
European Free-Church |
1 |
128 |
0.40 |
| General Association of Regular Baptist Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
Baptist |
1 |
--- |
--- |
| Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America |
Orthodox |
Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox) |
1 |
2,000 |
6.26 |
| Metropolitan Community Churches, Universal Fellowship of |
Mainline Protestant |
Other Groups |
1 |
453 |
1.42 |
| National Association of Free Will Baptists |
Evangelical Protestant |
Baptist |
1 |
75 |
0.23 |
| National Spiritualist Association of Churches |
Other |
Spiritualist |
1 |
--- |
--- |
| Orthodox Judaism |
Other |
Judaism |
1 |
60 |
0.19 |
| Pentecostal Church of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
Pentecostal |
1 |
109 |
0.34 |
| Polish National Catholic Church |
Catholic |
Catholicism |
1 |
--- |
--- |
| Reform Judaism |
Other |
Judaism |
1 |
1,995 |
6.25 |
| Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia |
Orthodox |
Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox) |
1 |
118 |
0.37 |
| Serbian Orthodox Church in North America |
Orthodox |
Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox) |
1 |
550 |
1.72 |
| Sikh |
Other |
Other Groups |
1 |
--- |
--- |
| Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations |
Other |
Liberal |
1 |
423 |
1.32 |
| United Holy Church of America, Inc. |
Black Protestant |
Pentecostal |
1 |
--- |
--- |
| Unity Churches, Association of |
Other |
Other Groups |
1 |
--- |
--- |
| Zoroastrian |
Other |
Other Groups |
1 |
--- |
--- |
| | Totals: | 411 | 147,353 | | |
The population of St. Louis city, Missouri was 319,294 in 2010; in 2000 it was 348,189. The total population changed -8.3%. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (147,353) included 46.1% of the total population in 2010.
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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.
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