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

How many churches are in Virginia?

Virginia has 10,236 church listings in the Churches List directory, spread across 620 cities and towns. 273 listings are verified, 9,855 include a phone number, and 2,444 publish a website. The 2020 US Religion Census counted 10,462 congregations of 209 religious bodies in Virginia, with 3,970,153 reported adherents across 133 counties. 56 Virginia church buildings hold National Register of Historic Places listings@if ($wayback > 0), and 10 of the state's church websites were already archived by the Internet Archive before 2001@endif.

10,236
Directory listings
10,462
2020 Census congregations
3,970,153
2020 Census adherents
56
NRHP churches
VA capital N
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Largest religious bodies in Virginia (2020 US Religion Census)

Religious body Congregations Adherents
Catholic Church 233 888,163
Non-denominational Christian Churches 1,519 723,632
Southern Baptist Convention 2,030 663,951
United Methodist Church 1,461 409,558
Muslim Estimate 90 169,371
Episcopal Church 333 99,669
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 206 96,496
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) 436 77,505
Assemblies of God 243 69,335
National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. 74 62,153
Jehovah's Witnesses 244 57,744
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America 186 44,193
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ 187 42,812
American Baptist Churches in the USA 79 38,985
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) 205 37,677
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Largest traditions in the Virginia directory

Tradition Listings
Baptist Churches 2,742
Methodist 1,184
Non-Denominational 1,027
Brethren 705
United Methodist 522
Presbyterian 375
Episcopal 368
Catholic 318
Evangelical 264
Church of God 258
Christian 257
Church of Christ 254
Lutheran 211
Pentecostal 198
Seventh Day Adventist 127
Where the churches are

Virginia cities with the most listings

Virginia counties

Sources and method

Directory figures are live counts from the Churches List database for Virginia (VA) 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 Virginia directory, and dataset licensing.