Churches List A Directory of American Churches
State statistics · updated June 2026

How many churches are in Michigan?

Michigan has 11,550 church listings in the Churches List directory, spread across 838 cities and towns. 431 listings are verified, 11,373 include a phone number, and 4,331 publish a website. The 2020 US Religion Census counted 9,693 congregations of 221 religious bodies in Michigan, with 3,998,543 reported adherents across 83 counties. 59 Michigan church buildings hold National Register of Historic Places listings@if ($wayback > 0), and 34 of the state's church websites were already archived by the Internet Archive before 2001@endif.

11,550
Directory listings
9,693
2020 Census congregations
3,998,543
2020 Census adherents
59
NRHP churches
MI capital N
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Largest religious bodies in Michigan (2020 US Religion Census)

Religious body Congregations Adherents
Catholic Church 730 1,492,732
Non-denominational Christian Churches 1,267 508,904
Muslim Estimate 127 241,828
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod 399 172,123
United Methodist Church 737 167,730
National Missionary Baptist Convention, Inc. 408 132,118
Assemblies of God 287 93,206
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America 281 82,376
National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. 127 77,470
Jehovah's Witnesses 306 69,130
Christian Reformed Church in North America 222 64,026
Reformed Church in America 159 62,850
American Baptist Churches in the USA 137 51,027
Church of God in Christ 182 49,529
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) 230 46,464
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Largest traditions in the Michigan directory

Tradition Listings
Baptist Churches 1,814
Non-Denominational 1,235
Catholic 1,187
Lutheran 912
Methodist 696
United Methodist 553
Church of God 528
Community 315
Church of Christ 304
Episcopal 273
Christian 270
Assemblies of God 259
Seventh Day Adventist 252
Presbyterian 249
Church of the Nazarene 249
Where the churches are

Michigan cities with the most listings

Michigan counties

Sources and method

Directory figures are live counts from the Churches List database for Michigan (MI) 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 · Tennessee. See also the national statistics page, the Michigan directory, and dataset licensing.