The Church Map data

The Church Map holds 450,011 congregation records across the United States, at street address, updated continuously. 363,073 of them carry enough evidence to appear on the map, across all 50 states and the District of Columbia, and 212,849 of those additionally hold a street address and a published page. Last updated 2026-09-21.

The reference dataset for American religion, the U.S. Religion Census, reports congregations by county, self-reported by denominational offices, once every ten years. It is careful work and we use it. It cannot tell you which street corner has no church on it. This is the other half: every record here is a place, not a total.

What sits underneath each record

  • 155,298 geographic boundaries — places, counties, ZIP code areas, census tracts and school districts.
  • 5,146,464 community statistic rows at census-tract grain, from CDC PLACES and the American Community Survey.

Two counts, and why we print both

A church earns a map pin when there is evidence it is real. It earns a published page when it additionally has a street address we can stand behind. Those are different bars and they produce different numbers — 363,073 and 212,849. Quoting either one on its own as "how many churches The Church Map has" would be misleading, so both appear everywhere, including in the file below.

Churches by state

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StateOn the mapPublished pagesDenominations recorded
Texas28,86718,816124
California21,89014,560154
North Carolina17,75310,578107
Georgia17,2917,987108
Florida16,87510,545108
Ohio15,0897,918133
Alabama14,7834,31684
Pennsylvania14,05010,012150
Tennessee14,0185,79889
Illinois13,4167,963136
Virginia12,8047,988126
Michigan12,3009,220129
New York12,2089,040121
South Carolina10,3506,17391
Mississippi9,7622,42666
Missouri9,1075,07693
Indiana8,5315,375100
Arkansas7,8332,97475
Kentucky7,7463,71080
Louisiana7,7023,32363
Oklahoma6,8213,14982
Maryland6,7494,532113
Iowa6,2042,22087
Washington5,7334,404112
New Jersey5,7153,89194
West Virginia4,9301,30468
Wisconsin4,8194,111114
Minnesota4,6363,885102
Massachusetts4,0743,01094
Kansas3,9992,51390
Colorado3,8803,203107
Arizona3,6903,14980
Nebraska3,4581,25880
Oregon3,3742,92091
Connecticut2,6342,07590
Utah2,5171,62658
New Mexico2,1681,43874
Montana1,98993256
Idaho1,5711,24263
Maine1,5701,12070
South Dakota1,44979358
Nevada1,21090053
New Hampshire1,15875655
North Dakota1,13558545
Alaska79158162
District of Columbia77662955
Rhode Island76743349
Hawaii75665453
Vermont74649148
Delaware73470065
Wyoming63554757

This table sums to 363,063, not 363,073: 10 mapped churches carry a state code that is not a state and so appear in no row.

What this data does not say

  • No county-level file. A county code is recorded on about a tenth of mapped churches. A county table built on that would be ninety per cent absent while looking complete, so there isn't one until a spatial backfill closes the gap.
  • No crime statistics, anywhere. We hold three sources reporting at incompatible scales while all labelling their figures "per 100,000" — one series reads 43,809 assaults per 100,000, which would be 44% of residents. It is blocked from every published page.
  • No estimate too imprecise to state as a fact. Census figures are survey estimates. Where the range around one is wider than 40 percentage points, or reads 0% or 100% on a sample under 50 households, we print no number at all.
  • Not a membership count. These are congregations we can locate, not adherents. For self-reported membership by denomination, the U.S. Religion Census remains the source.

Read the full methodology, including how each field is verified and what we refuse to publish.

How to cite this

The Church Map, national congregation dataset, 2026-09-21. https://thechurchmap.com/data