Essex County, Massachusetts has 425 churches in the Churches List directory, 14 of them verified and 226 with a published website. The 2020 US Religion Census counted 453 congregations and 397,483 adherents across 74 religious bodies in the county. That is 491 adherents per 1,000 residents of its 809,827 people.
| Religious body | Congregations | Adherents | Per 1,000 pop. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catholic Church | 52 | 299,218 | 369.5 |
| Muslim Estimate | 5 | 12,748 | 15.7 |
| Episcopal Church | 25 | 9,265 | 11.4 |
| Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America | 6 | 9,150 | 11.3 |
| Assemblies of God | 24 | 9,001 | 11.1 |
| United Church of Christ | 36 | 7,869 | 9.7 |
| Non-denominational Christian Churches | 34 | 6,680 | 8.2 |
| Jehovah's Witnesses | 28 | 6,610 | 8.2 |
| American Baptist Churches in the USA | 28 | 3,707 | 4.6 |
| Reform Judaism | 4 | 3,586 | 4.4 |
| United Methodist Church | 19 | 3,269 | 4.0 |
| Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations | 12 | 2,932 | 3.6 |
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 (809,827). Largest 12 bodies by adherents shown.
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Directory traditions here: Non-Denominational (55) · Catholic (49) · United Church of Christ (40) · Baptist Churches (33) · Episcopal (30) · Congregational (29) · United Methodist (24) · African Methodist Episcopal (15) · Christian (12) · Pentecostal (12)
Directory listings are mapped to Essex 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.