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Alcorn County, Mississippi - County Membership Report (2020)

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 13,250 381.40
Non-denominational Christian Churches Evangelical Protestant Other Groups Family 7 4,280 123.20
United Methodist Church Mainline Protestant Methodist Family 11 1,958 56.36
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant Restorationists Family 19 1,900 54.69
National Missionary Baptist Convention of America Black Protestant Baptist Family 5 1,052 30.28
Catholic Church Catholic Catholic Liturgical Family 1 534 15.37
Christian Methodist Episcopal Church Black Protestant Methodist Family 3 486 13.99
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Latter-day Saints Latter-day Saints (Mormonism) Family 1 348 10.02
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant Restorationists Family 4 332 9.56
Jehovah's Witnesses Jehovah's Witnesses Adventist Family 2 270 7.77
American Baptist Association Evangelical Protestant Baptist Family 1 200 5.76
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant Baptist Family 2 138 3.97
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant Adventist Family 1 135 3.89
Assemblies of God, General Council of the Evangelical Protestant Pentecostal Family 2 108 3.11
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant Anglican/Episcopal Family 1 83 2.39
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant Presbyterian/Reformed Family 1 76 2.19
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant Presbyterian/Reformed Family 1 58 1.67
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant Presbyterian/Reformed Family 1 41 1.18
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS) Evangelical Protestant Lutheran Family 1 27 0.78
Baha'i Faith Other Other Groups Family 0 3 0.09
Church of the Living God, the Pillar and Ground of the Truth, Inc. [Lewis Dominion] Black Protestant Pentecostal Family 1
Assemblies of the Lord Jesus Christ Evangelical Protestant Pentecostal Family 1
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant Baptist Family 2
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant Pentecostal Family 1
Evangelical Presbyterian Church (1981) Evangelical Protestant Presbyterian/Reformed Family 1
United Pentecostal Church International Evangelical Protestant Pentecostal Family 9
           

Religious Traditions (1980 - 2020), Percent of Population


The population of this county was 34,740 in 2020. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (25,279) included 72.8% of the total population in 2020. 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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