Polk County, Iowa has 392 churches in the Churches List directory, 16 of them verified and 172 with a published website. The 2020 US Religion Census counted 433 congregations and 190,684 adherents across 78 religious bodies in the county. That is 387 adherents per 1,000 residents of its 492,410 people.
| Religious body | Congregations | Adherents | Per 1,000 pop. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catholic Church | 20 | 66,540 | 135.1 |
| Non-denominational Christian Churches | 34 | 17,680 | 35.9 |
| United Methodist Church | 38 | 16,089 | 32.7 |
| Assemblies of God | 18 | 11,481 | 23.3 |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America | 17 | 11,336 | 23.0 |
| Muslim Estimate | 5 | 8,048 | 16.3 |
| Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod | 16 | 7,112 | 14.4 |
| Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) | 17 | 4,565 | 9.3 |
| Southern Baptist Convention | 22 | 4,117 | 8.4 |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 8 | 4,017 | 8.2 |
| United Church of Christ | 5 | 3,983 | 8.1 |
| Reformed Church in America | 4 | 3,347 | 6.8 |
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 (492,410). Largest 12 bodies by adherents shown.
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Directory traditions here: Baptist Churches (51) · Other Christian Services (43) · Methodist (38) · Lutheran (34) · Catholic (25) · United Methodist (23) · Christian (20) · Church of Christ (18) · Evangelical (17) · Brethren (16)
Directory listings are mapped to Polk 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.