Essex County, New Jersey has 681 churches in the Churches List directory, 24 of them verified and 232 with a published website. The 2020 US Religion Census counted 655 congregations and 465,773 adherents across 88 religious bodies in the county. That is 540 adherents per 1,000 residents of its 862,768 people.
| Religious body | Congregations | Adherents | Per 1,000 pop. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catholic Church | 61 | 245,360 | 284.4 |
| Muslim Estimate | 19 | 41,625 | 48.2 |
| Non-denominational Christian Churches | 59 | 26,380 | 30.6 |
| National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. | 28 | 19,814 | 23.0 |
| American Baptist Churches in the USA | 52 | 16,884 | 19.6 |
| Conservative Judaism | 8 | 12,434 | 14.4 |
| African Methodist Episcopal Church | 11 | 10,249 | 11.9 |
| Jehovah's Witnesses | 37 | 9,186 | 10.6 |
| Reform Judaism | 5 | 7,644 | 8.9 |
| Seventh-day Adventist Church | 19 | 6,487 | 7.5 |
| Assemblies of God | 33 | 6,421 | 7.4 |
| National Missionary Baptist Convention, Inc. | 20 | 6,200 | 7.2 |
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 (862,768). Largest 12 bodies by adherents shown.
New Hope Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Newark, New Jersey, located at 106 Sussex Avenue in University Heights. It is affiliated with the National Baptist Convention, USA.
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First Baptist Peddie Memorial Church is a historic church at Broad and Fulton Streets in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, United States. It was built in 1888 and added to the Nati...
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Directory traditions here: Baptist Churches (148) · Non-Denominational (117) · Catholic (68) · Church of God (38) · Presbyterian (36) · Episcopal (28) · United Church of Christ (20) · Pentecostal (19) · Evangelical (17) · Orthodox (15)
Directory listings are mapped to Essex 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.