Buena Vista County, Iowa has 46 churches in the Churches List directory, 1 of them verified and 3 with a published website. The 2020 US Religion Census counted 46 congregations and 10,443 adherents across 18 religious bodies in the county. That is 501 adherents per 1,000 residents of its 20,825 people.
| Religious body | Congregations | Adherents | Per 1,000 pop. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catholic Church | 1 | 3,283 | 157.6 |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America | 10 | 2,047 | 98.3 |
| Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod | 6 | 1,895 | 91.0 |
| United Methodist Church | 5 | 1,136 | 54.5 |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) | 2 | 432 | 20.7 |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 1 | 334 | 16.0 |
| Jehovah's Witnesses | 2 | 288 | 13.8 |
| Christian Churches and Churches of Christ | 1 | 233 | 11.2 |
| Southern Baptist Convention | 2 | 227 | 10.9 |
| United Church of Christ | 2 | 219 | 10.5 |
| Foursquare Gospel, International Church of the | 1 | 86 | 4.1 |
| Evangelical Covenant Church | 1 | 83 | 4.0 |
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 (20,825). Largest 12 bodies by adherents shown.
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Directory traditions here: Lutheran (15) · Methodist (7) · United Methodist (5) · Evangelical (3) · Other Christian Services (3) · Church of Christ (3) · Presbyterian (2) · Baptist Churches (2) · Catholic (2) · Episcopal (1)
Directory listings are mapped to Buena Vista 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.