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

How many churches are in West Virginia?

West Virginia has 3,898 church listings in the Churches List directory, spread across 475 cities and towns. 111 listings are verified, 3,580 include a phone number, and 650 publish a website. The 2020 US Religion Census counted 4,063 congregations of 121 religious bodies in West Virginia, with 676,837 reported adherents across 55 counties. 26 West Virginia church buildings hold National Register of Historic Places listings@if ($wayback > 0), and 1 of the state's church websites were already archived by the Internet Archive before 2001@endif.

3,898
Directory listings
4,063
2020 Census congregations
676,837
2020 Census adherents
26
NRHP churches
WV capital N
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Largest religious bodies in West Virginia (2020 US Religion Census)

Religious body Congregations Adherents
Non-denominational Christian Churches 340 152,518
United Methodist Church 1,041 111,565
Catholic Church 123 100,780
American Baptist Churches in the USA 346 77,838
Southern Baptist Convention 234 35,008
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) 167 20,811
Churches of Christ 259 19,347
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 35 16,644
Assemblies of God 110 14,374
Church of the Nazarene 109 14,274
National Missionary Baptist Convention, Inc. 65 13,116
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) 174 11,893
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ 78 9,884
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) 76 9,162
Jehovah's Witnesses 47 8,916
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Largest traditions in the West Virginia directory

Tradition Listings
Methodist 837
Baptist Churches 704
Non-Denominational 316
United Methodist 293
Catholic 185
Church of God 169
Church of Christ 159
Presbyterian 139
Church of the Nazarene 132
Brethren 104
Evangelical 84
Episcopal 82
Christian 82
Apostolic 61
Assemblies of God 61
Where the churches are

West Virginia cities with the most listings

West Virginia counties

Sources and method

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