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Cape Girardeau, MO-IL Metro Area - Metro Area 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 40 13,240 137.52
Catholic Church Catholic Catholic Liturgical Family 7 12,860 133.58
Assemblies of God, General Council of the Evangelical Protestant Pentecostal Family 10 11,256 116.92
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS) Evangelical Protestant Lutheran Family 16 9,647 100.20
United Methodist Church Mainline Protestant Methodist Family 25 7,265 75.46
Non-denominational Christian Churches Evangelical Protestant Other Groups Family 9 4,597 47.75
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant Congregationalists (United Church of Christ) Family 4 1,081 11.23
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Latter-day Saints Latter-day Saints (Mormonism) Family 3 787 8.17
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant Presbyterian/Reformed Family 7 746 7.75
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant Restorationists Family 8 586 6.09
African Methodist Episcopal Church Black Protestant Methodist Family 3 484 5.03
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant Lutheran Family 4 459 4.77
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant Restorationists Family 1 448 4.65
Church of God in Christ Black Protestant Pentecostal Family 3 412 4.28
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant Holiness Family 2 395 4.10
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant Baptist Family 4 334 3.47
American Baptist Churches in the U.S.A. Mainline Protestant Baptist Family 1 293 3.04
Congregational Methodist Church Evangelical Protestant Methodist Family 4 239 2.48
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant Restorationists Family 1 235 2.44
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant Pentecostal Family 2 169 1.76
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant Anglican/Episcopal Family 2 157 1.63
Salvation Army Evangelical Protestant Holiness Family 1 142 1.47
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant Adventist Family 3 129 1.34
Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant Lutheran Family 1 101 1.05
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant Holiness Family 2 99 1.03
Muslim Estimate Islam Islam Family 1 90 0.93
National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. Black Protestant Baptist Family 1 67 0.70
Baha'i Faith Other Other Groups Family 0 50 0.52
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant Pentecostal Family 1 35 0.36
Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America Orthodox Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox) Family 1 27 0.28
American Baptist Association Evangelical Protestant Baptist Family 1 24 0.25
Jehovah's Witnesses Jehovah's Witnesses Adventist Family 4
American Association of Lutheran Churches Evangelical Protestant Lutheran Family 1
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Christians Christian Science Family 1
United Pentecostal Church International Evangelical Protestant Pentecostal Family 7
           

Religious Traditions (1980 - 2020), Percent of Population


The population of this metro area was 96,275 in 2010. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (66,454) included 69.0% 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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