The Church Map data

The Church Map holds 450,073 congregation records across the United States, at street address, updated continuously. 362,501 of them carry enough evidence to appear on the map, across all 50 states and the District of Columbia, and 212,797 of those additionally hold a street address and a published page. Last updated 2026-11-06.

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.
  • 5,152,025 community statistic rows at census-tract grain, from public health surveys and census estimates.

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 — 362,501 and 212,797. 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
Texas28,83618,820136
California21,85114,560156
North Carolina17,73710,576108
Georgia17,2737,990109
Florida16,86210,559121
Ohio15,0617,911134
Alabama14,7664,31584
Pennsylvania14,0159,997152
Tennessee14,0115,81390
Illinois13,3937,960138
Virginia12,7907,983126
Michigan12,2479,181142
New York12,1599,026121
South Carolina10,3446,17791
Mississippi9,7582,42666
Missouri9,0965,07595
Indiana8,5205,376102
Arkansas7,8272,97275
Kentucky7,7383,71381
Louisiana7,6973,32563
Oklahoma6,8043,14382
Maryland6,7374,534115
Iowa6,1952,22687
Washington5,7254,408112
New Jersey5,6913,89595
West Virginia4,9251,30468
Wisconsin4,8104,110115
Minnesota4,6243,882103
Massachusetts4,0583,00394
Kansas3,9942,51491
Colorado3,8773,202107
Arizona3,6853,14880
Nebraska3,4511,26180
Oregon3,3702,91990
Connecticut2,6292,07790
Utah2,5111,62358
New Mexico2,1641,43674
Montana1,98893456
Idaho1,5691,24163
Maine1,5671,11770
South Dakota1,44579458
Nevada1,20889853
New Hampshire1,15675655
North Dakota1,13558545
Alaska79158162
District of Columbia77162756
Rhode Island76143249
Hawaii75665453
Vermont74449048
Delaware73470165
Wyoming63554757

This table sums to 362,491, not 362,501: 10 mapped churches carry a state code that is not a state and so appear in no row.

What this data does not say

  • Crime rates appear on the map only. The Public Safety view on the map shows crime rates built from city police departments' open incident data, and only where a department publishes it. The figures have no margins of error, so they are not used in these tables, on church pages or in prayer prompts.
  • 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 what we publish, the thresholds we hold, and what we refuse to publish.

How to cite this

The Church Map, national congregation dataset, 2026-11-06. https://thechurchmap.com/data