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Churches in Sampson County

Sampson County, North Carolina has 233 churches in the Churches List directory, 3 of them verified and 34 with a published website. The 2020 US Religion Census counted 207 congregations and 40,988 adherents across 29 religious bodies in the county. That is 694 adherents per 1,000 residents of its 59,042 people.

233
Directory listings
207
2020 Census congregations
40,988
2020 Census adherents
59,042
Population (2020 Census)
Sampson County NC · 2026
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Religious bodies in Sampson County (2020 US Religion Census)

Religious body Congregations Adherents Per 1,000 pop.
Southern Baptist Convention 66 18,135 307.2
Non-denominational Christian Churches 25 8,444 143.0
Catholic Church 3 3,534 59.9
United Methodist Church 20 2,548 43.2
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church 11 1,830 31.0
National Missionary Baptist Convention, Inc. 8 1,728 29.3
Convention of Original Free Will Baptist Churches 6 696 11.8
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) 6 608 10.3
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) 19 585 9.9
National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. 1 500 8.5
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) 6 403 6.8
United Holy Church of America, Inc. 9 362 6.1

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 (59,042). Largest 12 bodies by adherents shown.

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Historic-register churches in the county

Inside the county

Cities and towns in Sampson County

Directory traditions here: Baptist Churches (83) · Non-Denominational (51) · Methodist (18) · Church of God (10) · Pentecostal (10) · Disciples Of Christ (8) · Christian (5) · Evangelical (5) · Holiness (5) · United Methodist (5)

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How this county page is assembled

Directory listings are mapped to Sampson 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.