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

How many churches are in Washington?

Washington has 5,927 church listings in the Churches List directory, spread across 393 cities and towns. 213 listings are verified, 5,777 include a phone number, and 1,795 publish a website. The 2020 US Religion Census counted 6,171 congregations of 176 religious bodies in Washington, with 3,174,661 reported adherents across 39 counties. 19 Washington church buildings hold National Register of Historic Places listings@if ($wayback > 0), and 5 of the state's church websites were already archived by the Internet Archive before 2001@endif.

5,927
Directory listings
6,171
2020 Census congregations
3,174,661
2020 Census adherents
19
NRHP churches
WA capital N
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Largest religious bodies in Washington (2020 US Religion Census)

Religious body Congregations Adherents
Non-denominational Christian Churches 764 1,103,660
Catholic Church 304 826,597
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 528 279,465
Assemblies of God 418 144,023
Jehovah's Witnesses 325 79,842
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America 235 64,596
Seventh-day Adventist Church 219 58,655
Mahayana Buddhist 31 55,719
Foursquare Gospel, International Church of the 151 45,084
Southern Baptist Convention 344 43,341
United Methodist Church 208 41,743
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) 154 32,689
Church of the Nazarene 142 28,889
Muslim Estimate 44 27,391
Episcopal Church 118 26,625
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Largest traditions in the Washington directory

Tradition Listings
Non-Denominational 731
Baptist Churches 674
Lutheran 445
Catholic 434
Community 291
Methodist 237
Seventh Day Adventist 217
Foursquare 216
Presbyterian 188
African Methodist Episcopal 184
Assemblies of God 178
Church of the Nazarene 169
Evangelical 167
Episcopal 165
Christian 164
Where the churches are

Washington cities with the most listings

Washington counties

Sources and method

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