South Carolina has 8,431 church listings in the Churches List directory, spread across 376 cities and towns. 154 listings are verified, 8,228 include a phone number, and 1,332 publish a website. The 2020 US Religion Census counted 8,205 congregations of 150 religious bodies in South Carolina, with 2,695,900 reported adherents across 46 counties. 83 South Carolina 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 | 2,109 | 816,405 |
| Non-denominational Christian Churches | 1,141 | 454,063 |
| Catholic Church | 120 | 407,840 |
| United Methodist Church | 976 | 242,467 |
| African Methodist Episcopal Church | 449 | 108,516 |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) | 282 | 63,370 |
| Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) | 307 | 59,054 |
| National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. | 132 | 54,018 |
| Jehovah's Witnesses | 185 | 46,010 |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 72 | 41,358 |
| National Missionary Baptist Convention, Inc. | 151 | 40,534 |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America | 149 | 40,105 |
| Progressive National Baptist Convention, Inc. | 42 | 31,372 |
| Episcopal Church | 90 | 29,571 |
| Presbyterian Church in America | 117 | 25,415 |
| Tradition | Listings |
|---|---|
| Baptist Churches | 3,316 |
| Methodist | 918 |
| Non-Denominational | 784 |
| United Methodist | 388 |
| Presbyterian | 331 |
| Church of God | 327 |
| African Methodist Episcopal | 299 |
| Pentecostal | 204 |
| Catholic | 189 |
| Lutheran | 187 |
| Evangelical | 166 |
| Episcopal | 158 |
| Church of Christ | 147 |
| Christian | 98 |
| Seventh Day Adventist | 86 |
Directory figures are live counts from the Churches List database for South Carolina (SC) 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 South Carolina directory, and dataset licensing.