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Churches in Wayne County

Wayne County, North Carolina has 158 churches in the Churches List directory, 2 of them verified and 49 with a published website. The 2020 US Religion Census counted 270 congregations and 56,901 adherents across 39 religious bodies in the county. That is 485 adherents per 1,000 residents of its 117,321 people.

158
Directory listings
270
2020 Census congregations
56,901
2020 Census adherents
117,321
Population (2020 Census)
Wayne County NC · 2026
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Religious bodies in Wayne County (2020 US Religion Census)

Religious body Congregations Adherents Per 1,000 pop.
Non-denominational Christian Churches 60 15,580 132.8
Catholic Church 3 8,193 69.8
Southern Baptist Convention 30 6,681 56.9
United Methodist Church 27 6,552 55.8
National Missionary Baptist Convention, Inc. 8 2,904 24.8
Convention of Original Free Will Baptist Churches 17 2,556 21.8
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church 11 1,820 15.5
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) 7 1,631 13.9
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 3 1,470 12.5
Jehovah's Witnesses 6 1,174 10.0
Muslim Estimate 2 984 8.4
United Holy Church of America, Inc. 19 865 7.4

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 (117,321). Largest 12 bodies by adherents shown.

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Historic-register churches in the county

Inside the county

Cities and towns in Wayne County

Directory traditions here: Baptist Churches (36) · Non-Denominational (35) · Methodist (19) · Church of Christ (7) · Church of God (6) · Pentecostal (6) · Episcopal (5) · Disciples Of Christ (4) · Catholic (4) · Christian (3)

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How this county page is assembled

Directory listings are mapped to Wayne 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.