Rutherford County, North Carolina has 212 churches in the Churches List directory, 2 of them verified and 34 with a published website. The 2020 US Religion Census counted 195 congregations and 44,973 adherents across 24 religious bodies in the county. That is 698 adherents per 1,000 residents of its 64,446 people.
| Religious body | Congregations | Adherents | Per 1,000 pop. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southern Baptist Convention | 104 | 29,270 | 454.2 |
| United Methodist Church | 25 | 4,243 | 65.8 |
| Non-denominational Christian Churches | 14 | 3,560 | 55.2 |
| Catholic Church | 1 | 2,429 | 37.7 |
| African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church | 12 | 1,612 | 25.0 |
| Christian Methodist Episcopal Church | 5 | 576 | 8.9 |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) | 5 | 547 | 8.5 |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 1 | 490 | 7.6 |
| Jehovah's Witnesses | 2 | 472 | 7.3 |
| National Missionary Baptist Convention, Inc. | 2 | 300 | 4.7 |
| Wesleyan Church | 3 | 228 | 3.5 |
| Foursquare Gospel, International Church of the | 1 | 206 | 3.2 |
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 (64,446). Largest 12 bodies by adherents shown.
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Directory traditions here: Baptist Churches (97) · Methodist (27) · Non-Denominational (22) · United Methodist (13) · Evangelical (7) · African Methodist Episcopal (7) · Church of God (4) · Wesleyan (4) · Episcopal (4) · Presbyterian (3)
Directory listings are mapped to Rutherford 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.