Missouri Is America’s #7 Amish State — These Are Its 10 Biggest Communities

Missouri is home to America’s seventh-largest Amish population. Over 18,000 Amish live in more than 60 settlements across the state.

These ten communities are the largest in Missouri, based on the most current Amish population estimates.

Population numbers via Young Center for Anabaptist & Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College (source link at bottom).

1. Seymour

Seymour (Webster County)
Community founded: 1968
Total Amish population: 4,325

Missouri’s largest Amish settlement sits in the eastern half of Webster County, in the Ozarks. Founded in 1968, it’s grown to 21 church districts (congregations), and is the 10th-largest Amish settlement in North America.

This group has roots in the Swiss Amish community in the large Berne, Indiana settlement in Adams County. That heritage is reflected here in visible ways, including open-top buggies and common Swiss family names like Schwartz, Hilty, and Graber.

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2. Clark

Clark (Audrain & Monroe Counties)
Community founded: 1953
Total Amish population: 1,730

The state’s second-largest Amish community lies in Audrain and Monroe Counties in northeast-central Missouri. It was started by Iowa Amish looking for greater freedom after conflicts over school regulations in their home state.

While it’s not a heavily-touristed community, the Clark area does offer Amish shops selling goods such as rugs and leather, bakeries, and other businesses, as well as an Amish-attended produce auction.

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3. Jamesport

Jamesport (Daviess, Grundy & Livingston Counties)
Community founded: 1953
Total Amish population: 1,090

Jamesport is Missouri’s best-known Amish community, thanks to a well-developed tourism scene – bakeries, harness shops, greenhouses, furniture makers, a produce auction, and even organized Amish home tours.

While it’s sometimes called “Missouri’s largest Amish community,” that claim is pretty far from reality, but this is still a thriving Amish settlement of hundreds of residents. If you’re looking to visit an Amish community in the state, Jamesport is the most visitor-oriented of the bunch.

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4. Spickard/Princeton

Spickard/Princeton (Grundy County)
Community founded: 1997
Total Amish population: 645

Spickard and Princeton sit in Grundy County in north-central Missouri, not far from the Iowa border. Founded in 1997, the community has grown to five church districts over the past three decades, becoming one of the more well-established Amish communities in the state.

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5. Windsor

Windsor (Benton, Henry, Johnson & Pettis Counties)
Community founded: 1975
Total Amish population: 500

The Windsor Amish settlement has a footprint spanning a broad four-county area in west-central Missouri. Founded in 1975, it’s grown to four church districts in size.

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6. Greentop

Greentop (Adair & Schuyler Counties)
Community founded: 2003
Total Amish population: 490

Greentop is another Swiss Amish community – but with roots that differ from Seymour’s. Greentop has ties with the other main Indiana Swiss Amish population, in Allen County. Founded in 2003, Greentop straddles Adair and Schuyler Counties in far northern Missouri, near the Iowa line.

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7. Bowling Green

Bowling Green (Pike County)
Community founded: 1947
Total Amish population: 450

The area of Bowling Green is home to the oldest Amish settlement in Missouri – founded 21 years before Seymour, and six years before Clark and Jamesport. It lies in Pike County in northeastern Missouri, roughly 90 minutes from St. Louis.

Interestingly, despite it having more time to grow than any community on this list, it has stayed relatively small at just three church districts – indicating that the community has seen a good number of families move out over the decades, some to start homes in new places.

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8. Licking

Licking (Texas County)
Community founded: 2009
Total Amish population: 440

The Licking Amish community lies in Texas County in south-central Missouri. Founded in 2009, it’s since grown to five church districts. A second, unrelated Amish settlement founded near Licking in 2021 remains a single church district in size.

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9. Verona

Verona (Lawrence County)
Community founded: 1990
Total Amish population: 430

The Verona community sits in Lawrence County in southwestern Missouri, roughly a 40-minute drive from Springfield. Lawrence County is also home to a separate single-district community at nearby Mount Vernon, founded in 1995.

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10. Stanberry

Stanberry (Gentry County)
Community founded: 2000
Total Amish population: 420

Rounding out the top ten is Stanberry, in Gentry County in Missouri’s northwestern corner. Founded in 2000, it’s another community that has seen solid growth, now three church districts in size.

For more on Amish communities in the Show-Me State, check out our Missouri Amish state guide.

See also:

1. Pennsylvania’s 10 Largest Amish Communities
2. Ohio’s 10 Largest Amish Communities
3. Indiana’s 10 Largest Amish Communities
4. Wisconsin’s 10 Largest Amish Communities
5. New York’s 10 Largest Amish Communities
6. Michigan’s 10 Largest Amish Communities

Population numbers sourced from the Young Center (Elizabethtown College) Amish Settlement List.