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Cooper County, Missouri - 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 14 2,700 153.40
Catholic Church Catholic Catholic Liturgical Family 4 2,117 120.28
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS) Evangelical Protestant Lutheran Family 4 1,036 58.86
United Methodist Church Mainline Protestant Methodist Family 4 836 47.50
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant Congregationalists (United Church of Christ) Family 2 422 23.98
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant Restorationists Family 2 384 21.82
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant Presbyterian/Reformed Family 3 257 14.60
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant Restorationists Family 1 254 14.43
Amish Groups, undifferentiated Evangelical Protestant Mennonite/Amish Family 2 242 13.75
African Methodist Episcopal Church Black Protestant Methodist Family 2 224 12.73
Non-denominational Christian Churches Evangelical Protestant Other Groups Family 2 200 11.36
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant Pentecostal Family 1 192 10.91
Open Bible Churches Evangelical Protestant Pentecostal Family 1 140 7.95
Community of Christ Evangelical Protestant Latter-day Saints (Mormonism) Family 1 138 7.84
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant Pentecostal Family 1 109 6.19
Assemblies of God, General Council of the Evangelical Protestant Pentecostal Family 1 85 4.83
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant Restorationists Family 2 64 3.64
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant Pentecostal Family 1 56 3.18
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant Adventist Family 1 45 2.56
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant Anglican/Episcopal Family 1 33 1.87
Buddhism, Mahayana Buddhism Buddhism Family 1 16 0.91
Baha'i Faith Other Other Groups Family 0 3 0.17
Jehovah's Witnesses Jehovah's Witnesses Adventist Family 1
United Pentecostal Church International Evangelical Protestant Pentecostal Family 1
           

Religious Traditions (1980 - 2020), Percent of Population


The population of this county was 17,601 in 2010. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (9,553) included 54.3% 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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