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

How many churches are in North Dakota?

North Dakota has 1,454 church listings in the Churches List directory, spread across 301 cities and towns. 71 listings are verified, 1,415 include a phone number, and 460 publish a website. The 2020 US Religion Census counted 1,452 congregations of 74 religious bodies in North Dakota, with 428,647 reported adherents across 53 counties. 13 North Dakota 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.

1,454
Directory listings
1,452
2020 Census congregations
428,647
2020 Census adherents
13
NRHP churches
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Largest religious bodies in North Dakota (2020 US Religion Census)

Religious body Congregations Adherents
Catholic Church 232 164,843
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America 367 140,764
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod 81 17,968
Church of the Nazarene 28 17,585
Assemblies of God 70 16,035
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 27 11,550
United Methodist Church 92 10,855
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations 41 6,474
Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ 24 6,288
Non-denominational Christian Churches 42 6,159
United Church of Christ 44 4,000
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) 48 3,353
Jehovah's Witnesses 17 2,818
Seventh-day Adventist Church 29 2,526
Wesleyan Church 6 2,279
Where the churches are

North Dakota cities with the most listings

North Dakota counties

Sources and method

Directory figures are live counts from the Churches List database for North Dakota (ND) 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 North Dakota directory, and dataset licensing.