Assemblies of God Churches in Texas: 603 Congregations Mapped by County and City

Texas holds 603 Assemblies of God congregations in the Churches List directory, the largest state count for the fellowship and 8.2 percent of its 7,336 national listings. The Assemblies organized in 1914 in Hot Springs, Arkansas, one state away, and Texas has anchored its southern flank ever since.

The defining Texas fact is dispersion: the 603 congregations spread across 366 cities and towns, and no city holds more than 10. Houston leads with that 10, Austin holds 9, and the deep-East-Texas town of Lufkin holds 8, the same count as metropolitan Arlington. This is a small-town fellowship by geography, planted along the highways rather than concentrated in the metros.

Which Texas cities have the most Assemblies of God churches?

The city table reads unlike any other in this series: the top 15 cities together hold barely a sixth of the state's congregations. The pattern is the fellowship's church-planting model made visible: Assemblies congregations historically formed wherever a few families and an evangelist could raise a building, which produced hundreds of 60-member churches rather than dozens of 600-member ones.

A selection of Assemblies of God congregations across Texas

The table holds 60 of the 603 Assemblies of God congregations listed in Texas, selected for record completeness. The Assemblies of God tradition page and the Texas state page hold the complete lists.

Where Assemblies of God congregations stand in Texas: the map

How Assemblies of God's Texas footprint compares nationally

Nationally the directory lists 7,336 Assemblies of God congregations. Texas's 603 lead California and the fellowship's plains-state strongholds, and 123 of the Texas congregations publish websites. None of the Texas congregations holds a register-listed building, consistent with a fellowship barely a century old that builds functional sanctuaries and replaces them as congregations grow.

How this map was assembled

Counts come from the Churches List directory snapshot of June 11, 2026: 603 congregations in Texas carry the Assemblies of God tradition label, out of 7,336 nationwide and 23,267 Texas churches of all traditions. Tradition labels derive from each congregation's source records and self-description; 123 of the Texas listings carry a website. The directory does not rank congregations. Corrections are applied through the corrections page.

Related reading in The Letter: Church of God congregations in Florida maps the other great Pentecostal-holiness geography of the Sun Belt, and the Oklahoma City guide covers a neighboring plains church landscape. The Assemblies of God tradition page lists all 7,336 congregations nationwide.