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Churches in Bay County

Bay County, Florida has 186 churches in the Churches List directory, 2 of them verified and 67 with a published website. The 2020 US Religion Census counted 205 congregations and 64,581 adherents across 43 religious bodies in the county. That is 369 adherents per 1,000 residents of its 175,208 people.

186
Directory listings
205
2020 Census congregations
64,581
2020 Census adherents
175,208
Population (2020 Census)
Bay County FL · 2026
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Religious bodies in Bay County (2020 US Religion Census)

Religious body Congregations Adherents Per 1,000 pop.
Southern Baptist Convention 33 21,778 124.3
Catholic Church 6 11,526 65.8
Non-denominational Christian Churches 46 11,460 65.4
United Methodist Church 13 4,706 26.9
Jehovah's Witnesses 9 2,266 12.9
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 4 2,172 12.4
Assemblies of God 19 1,996 11.4
Churches of Christ 8 1,162 6.6
Episcopal Church 5 1,091 6.2
African Methodist Episcopal Church 6 952 5.4
Seventh-day Adventist Church 3 816 4.7
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod 4 609 3.5

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 (175,208). Largest 12 bodies by adherents shown.

Inside the county

Cities and towns in Bay County

Directory traditions here: Baptist Churches (55) · Non-Denominational (23) · Assemblies of God (18) · United Methodist (9) · Catholic (9) · Methodist (7) · Presbyterian (7) · Church of God (6) · Lutheran (6) · Episcopal (6)

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How this county page is assembled

Directory listings are mapped to Bay 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.