Orange County, North Carolina has 149 churches in the Churches List directory, 1 of them verified and 64 with a published website. The 2020 US Religion Census counted 175 congregations and 74,187 adherents across 50 religious bodies in the county. That is 499 adherents per 1,000 residents of its 148,717 people.
| Religious body | Congregations | Adherents | Per 1,000 pop. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catholic Church | 3 | 25,740 | 173.1 |
| United Methodist Church | 27 | 10,810 | 72.7 |
| Non-denominational Christian Churches | 21 | 9,170 | 61.7 |
| Southern Baptist Convention | 25 | 4,575 | 30.8 |
| Episcopal Church | 4 | 3,203 | 21.5 |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) | 8 | 2,462 | 16.6 |
| African Methodist Episcopal Church | 8 | 2,060 | 13.9 |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 4 | 1,960 | 13.2 |
| National Missionary Baptist Convention, Inc. | 7 | 1,866 | 12.5 |
| Muslim Estimate | 2 | 1,783 | 12.0 |
| United Church of Christ | 3 | 1,226 | 8.2 |
| National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. | 2 | 1,075 | 7.2 |
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 (148,717). Largest 12 bodies by adherents shown.
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Directory listings are mapped to Orange 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.