North Carolina has 16,249 church listings in the Churches List directory, spread across 742 cities and towns. 383 listings are verified, 15,888 include a phone number, and 4,861 publish a website. The 2020 US Religion Census counted 16,177 congregations of 192 religious bodies in North Carolina, with 5,441,989 reported adherents across 100 counties. 118 North Carolina church buildings hold National Register of Historic Places listings@if ($wayback > 0), and 42 of the state's church websites were already archived by the Internet Archive before 2001@endif.
| Religious body | Congregations | Adherents |
|---|---|---|
| Southern Baptist Convention | 4,374 | 1,324,747 |
| Non-denominational Christian Churches | 2,354 | 1,053,564 |
| Catholic Church | 198 | 928,735 |
| United Methodist Church | 1,800 | 595,636 |
| Muslim Estimate | 70 | 130,661 |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) | 616 | 129,110 |
| National Missionary Baptist Convention, Inc. | 429 | 119,228 |
| African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church | 574 | 110,503 |
| Jehovah's Witnesses | 434 | 105,874 |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 175 | 89,083 |
| Episcopal Church | 237 | 74,210 |
| Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) | 452 | 68,675 |
| Assemblies of God | 281 | 51,450 |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America | 188 | 50,782 |
| National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. | 87 | 45,323 |
| Tradition | Listings |
|---|---|
| Baptist Churches | 5,772 |
| Non-Denominational | 1,959 |
| Methodist | 1,462 |
| United Methodist | 757 |
| Church of God | 619 |
| Presbyterian | 563 |
| Pentecostal | 408 |
| African Methodist Episcopal | 379 |
| Evangelical | 375 |
| Church of Christ | 374 |
| Christian | 330 |
| Episcopal | 316 |
| Lutheran | 296 |
| Catholic | 269 |
| Holiness | 261 |
Directory figures are live counts from the Churches List database for North Carolina (NC) 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 · Ohio · Florida · Illinois · Georgia · New York · Michigan · Tennessee. See also the national statistics page, the North Carolina directory, and dataset licensing.