Shelby County, Missouri has 21 churches in the Churches List directory, 2 of them verified and 2 with a published website. The 2020 US Religion Census counted 30 congregations and 2,953 adherents across 12 religious bodies in the county. That is 484 adherents per 1,000 residents of its 6,102 people.
| Religious body | Congregations | Adherents | Per 1,000 pop. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christian Churches and Churches of Christ | 6 | 979 | 160.4 |
| Southern Baptist Convention | 9 | 868 | 142.2 |
| United Methodist Church | 5 | 585 | 95.9 |
| Catholic Church | 2 | 295 | 48.3 |
| Tampico Amish-Mennonite | 1 | 74 | 12.1 |
| Non-denominational Christian Churches | 1 | 60 | 9.8 |
| Church of the Nazarene | 1 | 42 | 6.9 |
| Mennonite Church USA | 1 | 32 | 5.2 |
| Churches of Christ | 1 | 18 | 2.9 |
| Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) | 1 | 0 | 0.0 |
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 (6,102). Largest 12 bodies by adherents shown.
Directory traditions here: Christian (4) · United Methodist (3) · Catholic (3) · Baptist Churches (3) · Non-Denominational (2) · Methodist (2) · Lutheran (1) · Church of Christ (1) · Other Christian Services (1) · Church of the Nazarene (1)
Directory listings are mapped to Shelby 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.