Shelby County, Iowa has 36 churches in the Churches List directory, 0 of them verified and 9 with a published website. The 2020 US Religion Census counted 36 congregations and 7,269 adherents across 16 religious bodies in the county. That is 618 adherents per 1,000 residents of its 11,760 people.
| Religious body | Congregations | Adherents | Per 1,000 pop. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catholic Church | 6 | 3,601 | 306.2 |
| United Methodist Church | 6 | 1,043 | 88.7 |
| Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ | 5 | 858 | 73.0 |
| Non-denominational Christian Churches | 4 | 650 | 55.3 |
| American Baptist Churches in the USA | 2 | 508 | 43.2 |
| Christian Churches and Churches of Christ | 2 | 169 | 14.4 |
| Churches of Christ | 2 | 150 | 12.8 |
| United Church of Christ | 1 | 105 | 8.9 |
| Assemblies of God | 1 | 94 | 8.0 |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) | 1 | 54 | 4.6 |
| Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod | 1 | 17 | 1.4 |
| Seventh-day Adventist Church | 1 | 10 | 0.9 |
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 (11,760). Largest 12 bodies by adherents shown.
Directory traditions here: Catholic (7) · Lutheran (6) · Baptist Churches (6) · United Methodist (3) · Church of Christ (3) · Non-Denominational (3) · Methodist (2) · Seventh Day Adventist (1) · Christian (1) · Presbyterian (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.