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Lea County, New Mexico - 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
Catholic Church Catholic Catholic Liturgical Family 6 13,966 187.58
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant Baptist Family 29 7,645 102.68
Non-denominational Christian Churches Evangelical Protestant Other Groups Family 14 4,300 57.75
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant Restorationists Family 12 1,482 19.90
United Methodist Church Mainline Protestant Methodist Family 4 1,118 15.02
Jehovah's Witnesses Jehovah's Witnesses Adventist Family 5 1,088 14.61
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Latter-day Saints Latter-day Saints (Mormonism) Family 2 988 13.27
National Missionary Baptist Convention of America Black Protestant Baptist Family 1 900 12.09
Assemblies of God, General Council of the Evangelical Protestant Pentecostal Family 9 764 10.26
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant Adventist Family 3 383 5.14
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant Restorationists Family 3 317 4.26
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant Holiness Family 3 274 3.68
Church of God in Christ Black Protestant Pentecostal Family 2 180 2.42
Christian Methodist Episcopal Church Black Protestant Methodist Family 1 160 2.15
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant Pentecostal Family 5 155 2.08
Baha'i Faith Other Other Groups Family 0 148 1.99
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant Presbyterian/Reformed Family 2 102 1.37
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS) Evangelical Protestant Lutheran Family 2 95 1.28
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant Lutheran Family 1 55 0.74
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant Anglican/Episcopal Family 1 51 0.68
Salvation Army Evangelical Protestant Holiness Family 1 28 0.38
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant Pentecostal Family 2
United Pentecostal Church International Evangelical Protestant Pentecostal Family 2
           

Religious Traditions (1980 - 2020), Percent of Population


The population of this county was 74,455 in 2020. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (34,199) included 45.9% 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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