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Pontotoc 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 53 17,060 547.08
United Methodist Church Mainline Protestant Methodist Family 13 1,398 44.83
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant Restorationists Family 5 399 12.80
Jehovah's Witnesses Jehovah's Witnesses Adventist Family 2 338 10.84
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant Baptist Family 4 286 9.17
Catholic Church Catholic Catholic Liturgical Family 1 277 8.88
Non-denominational Christian Churches Evangelical Protestant Other Groups Family 2 230 7.38
Amish Groups, undifferentiated Evangelical Protestant Mennonite/Amish Family 1 184 5.90
National Missionary Baptist Convention of America Black Protestant Baptist Family 1 150 4.81
Christian Methodist Episcopal Church Black Protestant Methodist Family 2 146 4.68
Primitive Baptists Associations Evangelical Protestant Baptist Family 1 80 2.57
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant Presbyterian/Reformed Family 2 35 1.12
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant Holiness Family 1 33 1.06
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant Presbyterian/Reformed Family 1 33 1.06
Assemblies of God, General Council of the Evangelical Protestant Pentecostal Family 1 18 0.58
Baha'i Faith Other Other Groups Family 0 1 0.03
Church of the Living God, the Pillar and Ground of the Truth, Inc. [Lewis Dominion] Black Protestant Pentecostal Family 1
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant Pentecostal Family 1
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant Pentecostal Family 1
United Pentecostal Church International Evangelical Protestant Pentecostal Family 2
           

Religious Traditions (1980 - 2020), Percent of Population


The population of this county was 31,184 in 2020. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (20,668) included 66.3% 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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