McDowell County, North Carolina has 130 churches in the Churches List directory, 2 of them verified and 28 with a published website. The 2020 US Religion Census counted 114 congregations and 20,194 adherents across 25 religious bodies in the county. That is 453 adherents per 1,000 residents of its 44,582 people.
| Religious body | Congregations | Adherents | Per 1,000 pop. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southern Baptist Convention | 38 | 9,385 | 210.5 |
| Non-denominational Christian Churches | 11 | 2,830 | 63.5 |
| United Methodist Church | 17 | 2,086 | 46.8 |
| Catholic Church | 1 | 1,947 | 43.7 |
| National Association of Free Will Baptists | 12 | 819 | 18.4 |
| Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) | 6 | 510 | 11.4 |
| Jehovah's Witnesses | 2 | 406 | 9.1 |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 1 | 357 | 8.0 |
| African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church | 3 | 252 | 5.7 |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) | 5 | 222 | 5.0 |
| Assemblies of God | 2 | 219 | 4.9 |
| African Methodist Episcopal Church | 1 | 202 | 4.5 |
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 (44,582). Largest 12 bodies by adherents shown.
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Directory traditions here: Baptist Churches (56) · Methodist (14) · Non-Denominational (10) · Presbyterian (8) · Church of God (7) · United Methodist (6) · Evangelical (4) · Episcopal (3) · African Methodist Episcopal (3) · Church of Christ (3)
Directory listings are mapped to McDowell 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.