Dorchester County, South Carolina has 194 churches in the Churches List directory, 6 of them verified and 21 with a published website. The 2020 US Religion Census counted 174 congregations and 67,584 adherents across 43 religious bodies in the county. That is 419 adherents per 1,000 residents of its 161,329 people.
| Religious body | Congregations | Adherents | Per 1,000 pop. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catholic Church | 2 | 17,484 | 108.4 |
| Southern Baptist Convention | 30 | 14,073 | 87.2 |
| Non-denominational Christian Churches | 27 | 10,744 | 66.6 |
| United Methodist Church | 31 | 10,155 | 62.9 |
| African Methodist Episcopal Church | 11 | 2,694 | 16.7 |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 4 | 2,256 | 14.0 |
| Jehovah's Witnesses | 6 | 1,686 | 10.5 |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) | 2 | 1,021 | 6.3 |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America | 2 | 960 | 6.0 |
| Churches of Christ | 4 | 884 | 5.5 |
| Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith, Inc. | 4 | 720 | 4.5 |
| Episcopal Church | 3 | 712 | 4.4 |
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 (161,329). Largest 12 bodies by adherents shown.
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Directory traditions here: Baptist Churches (55) · Non-Denominational (37) · Methodist (25) · United Methodist (15) · African Methodist Episcopal (9) · Christian (7) · Church of God (6) · Episcopal (5) · Pentecostal (5) · Church of Christ (4)
Directory listings are mapped to Dorchester 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.