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

How many churches are in Ohio?

Ohio has 15,714 church listings in the Churches List directory, spread across 1,015 cities and towns. 426 listings are verified, 15,195 include a phone number, and 3,502 publish a website. The 2020 US Religion Census counted 13,905 congregations of 232 religious bodies in Ohio, with 5,642,648 reported adherents across 88 counties. 155 Ohio church buildings hold National Register of Historic Places listings@if ($wayback > 0), and 50 of the state's church websites were already archived by the Internet Archive before 2001@endif.

15,714
Directory listings
13,905
2020 Census congregations
5,642,648
2020 Census adherents
155
NRHP churches
OH capital N
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Largest religious bodies in Ohio (2020 US Religion Census)

Religious body Congregations Adherents
Catholic Church 829 1,820,233
Non-denominational Christian Churches 1,867 1,411,863
United Methodist Church 1,659 336,720
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America 506 163,671
Southern Baptist Convention 740 132,633
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ 441 127,093
Muslim Estimate 94 120,077
National Missionary Baptist Convention, Inc. 297 112,904
United Church of Christ 325 90,042
Church of the Nazarene 343 89,086
American Baptist Churches in the USA 270 85,308
Jehovah's Witnesses 313 79,018
Assemblies of God 299 72,791
Amish Groups, undifferentiated 719 71,756
National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. 123 69,033
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Largest traditions in the Ohio directory

Tradition Listings
Baptist Churches 2,430
Non-Denominational 1,636
Catholic 1,278
Methodist 1,248
United Methodist 885
Lutheran 847
Church of God 831
Church of Christ 795
Brethren 721
United Church of Christ 504
Church of the Nazarene 467
Presbyterian 465
Christian 438
Community 292
Assemblies of God 262
Where the churches are

Ohio cities with the most listings

Ohio counties

Sources and method

Directory figures are live counts from the Churches List database for Ohio (OH) 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 · Florida · Illinois · Georgia · New York · Michigan · Tennessee. See also the national statistics page, the Ohio directory, and dataset licensing.