Lafayette County, Missouri has 84 churches in the Churches List directory, 0 of them verified and 19 with a published website. The 2020 US Religion Census counted 77 congregations and 18,430 adherents across 19 religious bodies in the county. That is 559 adherents per 1,000 residents of its 32,983 people.
| Religious body | Congregations | Adherents | Per 1,000 pop. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southern Baptist Convention | 15 | 6,636 | 201.2 |
| Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod | 8 | 3,919 | 118.8 |
| United Church of Christ | 5 | 1,535 | 46.5 |
| United Methodist Church | 10 | 1,479 | 44.8 |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 2 | 1,176 | 35.7 |
| Non-denominational Christian Churches | 6 | 904 | 27.4 |
| Catholic Church | 3 | 838 | 25.4 |
| African Methodist Episcopal Church | 3 | 458 | 13.9 |
| Christian Churches and Churches of Christ | 2 | 377 | 11.4 |
| Assemblies of God | 5 | 284 | 8.6 |
| Jehovah's Witnesses | 1 | 196 | 5.9 |
| Churches of Christ | 3 | 196 | 5.9 |
Source: 2020 US Religion Census (Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies). Per-1,000 rates divide reported adherents by the county's 2020 Census population (32,983). Largest 12 bodies by adherents shown.
Directory traditions here: Baptist Churches (19) · United Methodist (9) · Non-Denominational (8) · Lutheran (7) · Catholic (6) · United Church of Christ (6) · Christian (5) · Methodist (4) · Assemblies of God (4) · Presbyterian (4)
Directory listings are mapped to Lafayette County through the US Census Bureau's 2020 ZCTA-to-county relationship file: each ZIP Code Tabulation Area is assigned to the county holding the largest share of its land area, so a small number of churches in ZIP codes that straddle county lines may be attributed to a neighboring county. Congregation and adherent counts come from the 2020 US Religion Census and are reported by the religious bodies themselves. Population is the county's April 2020 decennial-census base from the US Census Bureau's population-estimates program; per-1,000 adherence rates divide reported adherents by that figure. Corrections to any listing go through the corrections page.