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

How many churches are in Texas?

Texas has 23,267 church listings in the Churches List directory, spread across 1,226 cities and towns. 597 listings are verified, 22,672 include a phone number, and 4,793 publish a website. The 2020 US Religion Census counted 29,746 congregations of 202 religious bodies in Texas, with 16,045,251 reported adherents across 253 counties. 100 Texas church buildings hold National Register of Historic Places listings@if ($wayback > 0), and 75 of the state's church websites were already archived by the Internet Archive before 2001@endif.

23,267
Directory listings
29,746
2020 Census congregations
16,045,251
2020 Census adherents
100
NRHP churches
TX capital N
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Largest religious bodies in Texas (2020 US Religion Census)

Religious body Congregations Adherents
Catholic Church 1,342 5,905,142
Southern Baptist Convention 7,935 3,319,962
Non-denominational Christian Churches 4,212 2,405,786
United Methodist Church 1,758 938,399
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 731 362,037
Jehovah's Witnesses 1,191 317,698
Muslim Estimate 225 313,209
Churches of Christ 1,897 312,132
Assemblies of God 1,432 296,826
National Missionary Baptist Convention, Inc. 875 294,954
Episcopal Church 353 134,318
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod 371 112,900
Seventh-day Adventist Church 412 99,868
Church of God in Christ 373 92,815
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) 417 81,282
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Largest traditions in the Texas directory

Tradition Listings
Baptist Churches 7,185
Non-Denominational 3,002
Church of Christ 1,544
Methodist 1,542
Catholic 1,516
United Methodist 962
Lutheran 746
Church of God 650
Assemblies of God 603
Christian 532
Presbyterian 521
Episcopal 491
Pentecostal 462
Church of the Nazarene 356
African Methodist Episcopal 347
Where the churches are

Texas cities with the most listings

Texas counties

Sources and method

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