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Alcorn County, Mississippi - County Membership Report (2010)

Exact definitions of "congregations" and "adherents" vary by religious body. Congregations may be parishes, churches, synagogues, mosques, temples, or another site where a religious body has regularly scheduled worship services. Adherents generally are members, children who are not members, and others who are not members but are considered participants in the congregation.

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Religious Bodies Tradition Family Congregations Adherents Adherence Rate
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant Baptist Family 32 14,134 381.41
United Methodist Church Mainline Protestant Methodist Family 12 2,264 61.10
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant Restorationists Family 20 2,018 54.46
Non-denominational Christian Churches Evangelical Protestant Other Groups Family 8 1,668 45.01
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant Restorationists Family 5 830 22.40
Christian Methodist Episcopal Church Black Protestant Methodist Family 4 752 20.29
Evangelical Presbyterian Church (1981) Evangelical Protestant Presbyterian/Reformed Family 1 578 15.60
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Latter-day Saints Latter-day Saints (Mormonism) Family 1 486 13.11
Catholic Church Catholic Catholic Liturgical Family 1 443 11.95
American Baptist Association Evangelical Protestant Baptist Family 2 432 11.66
Assemblies of God, General Council of the Evangelical Protestant Pentecostal Family 2 165 4.45
National Missionary Baptist Convention of America Black Protestant Baptist Family 1 154 4.16
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant Baptist Family 2 133 3.59
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant Adventist Family 1 124 3.35
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant Presbyterian/Reformed Family 2 99 2.67
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant Anglican/Episcopal Family 1 98 2.64
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant Presbyterian/Reformed Family 1 41 1.11
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant Presbyterian/Reformed Family 1 31 0.84
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS) Evangelical Protestant Lutheran Family 1 20 0.54
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant Pentecostal Family 1 10 0.27
Baha'i Faith Other Other Groups Family 0 3 0.08
National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. Black Protestant Baptist Family 1 0 0.00
Jehovah's Witnesses Jehovah's Witnesses Adventist Family 1
United Pentecostal Church International Evangelical Protestant Pentecostal Family 6
           

Religious Traditions (1980 - 2020), Percent of Population


The population of this county was 37,057 in 2010. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (24,483) included 66.1% of the total population in 2010. The adherence rate is the number of adherents of a given group per 1,000 people in the general population.

Note that data collection methods for religious bodies change over time, affecting the comparability of statistics. For further information, see the U.S. Religion Census website at https://www.usreligioncensus.org/.

The 2020 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and include data for 372 religious bodies or groups. Of these, the ASARB was able to gather data on congregations and adherents for 217 and on congregations only for 155.

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