Watauga County, North Carolina has 99 churches in the Churches List directory, 2 of them verified and 44 with a published website. The 2020 US Religion Census counted 94 congregations and 23,195 adherents across 30 religious bodies in the county. That is 429 adherents per 1,000 residents of its 54,077 people.
| Religious body | Congregations | Adherents | Per 1,000 pop. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southern Baptist Convention | 40 | 9,874 | 182.6 |
| United Methodist Church | 9 | 2,862 | 52.9 |
| Catholic Church | 2 | 1,956 | 36.2 |
| Non-denominational Christian Churches | 7 | 1,670 | 30.9 |
| Christian and Missionary Alliance | 1 | 1,108 | 20.5 |
| Episcopal Church | 3 | 1,077 | 19.9 |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America | 3 | 974 | 18.0 |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) | 3 | 787 | 14.6 |
| National Missionary Baptist Convention, Inc. | 1 | 700 | 12.9 |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 1 | 490 | 9.1 |
| Advent Christian Church | 2 | 354 | 6.5 |
| Christian Churches and Churches of Christ | 2 | 210 | 3.9 |
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 (54,077). Largest 12 bodies by adherents shown.
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Directory listings are mapped to Watauga 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.