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

How many churches are in Wisconsin?

Wisconsin has 6,256 church listings in the Churches List directory, spread across 683 cities and towns. 159 listings are verified, 6,128 include a phone number, and 1,667 publish a website. The 2020 US Religion Census counted 6,182 congregations of 160 religious bodies in Wisconsin, with 2,831,203 reported adherents across 72 counties. 72 Wisconsin church buildings hold National Register of Historic Places listings@if ($wayback > 0), and 4 of the state's church websites were already archived by the Internet Archive before 2001@endif.

6,256
Directory listings
6,182
2020 Census congregations
2,831,203
2020 Census adherents
72
NRHP churches
WI capital N
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Largest religious bodies in Wisconsin (2020 US Religion Census)

Religious body Congregations Adherents
Catholic Church 752 1,237,342
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America 652 316,245
Non-denominational Christian Churches 601 276,904
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod 393 209,788
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod 418 179,478
United Methodist Church 452 72,792
Muslim Estimate 30 68,699
Assemblies of God 179 55,578
United Church of Christ 215 44,796
Jehovah's Witnesses 154 34,684
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 67 26,734
Christian and Missionary Alliance 60 24,298
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) 132 21,407
Amish Groups, undifferentiated 200 21,063
National Missionary Baptist Convention, Inc. 60 20,258
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Largest traditions in the Wisconsin directory

Tradition Listings
Lutheran 1,465
Catholic 1,077
Non-Denominational 493
Baptist Churches 486
Methodist 313
United Methodist 310
African Methodist Episcopal 216
United Church of Christ 162
Episcopal 151
Presbyterian 142
Evangelical 133
Community 108
Seventh Day Adventist 98
Assemblies of God 92
Bible 90
Where the churches are

Wisconsin cities with the most listings

Wisconsin counties

Sources and method

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