Arkansas has 5,689 church listings in the Churches List directory, spread across 420 cities and towns. 151 listings are verified, 5,358 include a phone number, and 1,398 publish a website. The 2020 US Religion Census counted 7,424 congregations of 132 religious bodies in Arkansas, with 1,739,271 reported adherents across 75 counties. 65 Arkansas church buildings hold National Register of Historic Places listings@if ($wayback > 0), and 2 of the state's church websites were already archived by the Internet Archive before 2001@endif.
| Religious body | Congregations | Adherents |
|---|---|---|
| Southern Baptist Convention | 1,551 | 607,751 |
| Non-denominational Christian Churches | 861 | 248,994 |
| Catholic Church | 129 | 153,358 |
| United Methodist Church | 626 | 134,454 |
| National Missionary Baptist Convention, Inc. | 445 | 109,090 |
| Churches of Christ | 693 | 79,894 |
| Assemblies of God | 410 | 69,916 |
| American Baptist Association | 272 | 52,398 |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 71 | 32,307 |
| National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. | 65 | 27,815 |
| Jehovah's Witnesses | 134 | 26,964 |
| African Methodist Episcopal Church | 141 | 20,824 |
| Church of God in Christ | 98 | 16,790 |
| National Association of Free Will Baptists | 158 | 16,530 |
| Church of the Nazarene | 114 | 16,301 |
| Tradition | Listings |
|---|---|
| Baptist Churches | 2,049 |
| Methodist | 644 |
| Non-Denominational | 505 |
| Church of Christ | 347 |
| Assemblies of God | 241 |
| United Methodist | 224 |
| Pentecostal | 175 |
| Church of God | 174 |
| Catholic | 158 |
| Church of the Nazarene | 138 |
| Presbyterian | 125 |
| Christian | 107 |
| Seventh Day Adventist | 95 |
| Lutheran | 80 |
| Episcopal | 75 |
Directory figures are live counts from the Churches List database for Arkansas (AR) as of June 2026. Congregations and adherents come from the 2020 US Religion Census, a county-level enumeration reported by religious bodies and aggregated here to the state; its methodology differs from a directory count and the two will not match. Historic-register counts join National Register of Historic Places listings to directory churches. Statistics for other states: Texas · California · Pennsylvania · North Carolina · Ohio · Florida · Illinois · Georgia · New York · Michigan. See also the national statistics page, the Arkansas directory, and dataset licensing.