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Churches in Swain County

Swain County, North Carolina has 45 churches in the Churches List directory, 1 of them verified and 14 with a published website. The 2020 US Religion Census counted 38 congregations and 6,541 adherents across 13 religious bodies in the county. That is 463 adherents per 1,000 residents of its 14,117 people.

45
Directory listings
38
2020 Census congregations
6,541
2020 Census adherents
14,117
Population (2020 Census)
Swain County NC · 2026
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Religious bodies in Swain County (2020 US Religion Census)

Religious body Congregations Adherents Per 1,000 pop.
Southern Baptist Convention 19 2,779 196.9
Non-denominational Christian Churches 3 1,650 116.9
Catholic Church 2 718 50.9
United Methodist Church 2 501 35.5
National Missionary Baptist Convention, Inc. 4 450 31.9
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) 2 191 13.5
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) 1 130 9.2
Seventh-day Adventist Church 1 40 2.8
Church of the Nazarene 1 32 2.3
Wesleyan Church 1 31 2.2
Baha'i Faith USA 0 19 1.3

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 (14,117). Largest 12 bodies by adherents shown.

Inside the county

Cities and towns in Swain County

Directory traditions here: Baptist Churches (18) · Methodist (4) · Catholic (4) · Church of God (3) · Non-Denominational (3) · Seventh Day Adventist (2) · Bible (2) · Church of Christ (2) · Church of the Nazarene (1) · Assemblies of God (1)

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How this county page is assembled

Directory listings are mapped to Swain 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.