The Church Map data

The Church Map holds 450,002 congregation records across the United States, at street address, updated continuously. 363,071 of them carry enough evidence to appear on the map, across all 50 states and the District of Columbia, and 212,249 of those additionally hold a street address and a published page. Last updated 2026-08-15.

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.
  • 5,135,340 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 — 363,071 and 212,249. 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
Texas28,86718,786124
California21,89014,522154
North Carolina17,75310,533107
Georgia17,2917,937108
Florida16,87510,513108
Ohio15,0897,885133
Alabama14,7834,29684
Pennsylvania14,0509,995150
Tennessee14,0185,77090
Illinois13,4167,946136
Virginia12,8047,964126
Michigan12,2989,202120
New York12,2089,022121
South Carolina10,3506,12991
Mississippi9,7622,41566
Missouri9,1075,07193
Indiana8,5325,367100
Arkansas7,8332,96875
Kentucky7,7463,70280
Louisiana7,7023,31063
Oklahoma6,8213,13882
Maryland6,7494,514113
Iowa6,2042,19587
Washington5,7334,399112
New Jersey5,7153,87794
West Virginia4,9301,29768
Wisconsin4,8194,105114
Minnesota4,6363,881102
Massachusetts4,0743,00894
Kansas3,9982,51090
Colorado3,8803,199107
Arizona3,6903,14680
Nebraska3,4581,25080
Oregon3,3742,91691
Connecticut2,6342,07190
Utah2,5171,62458
New Mexico2,1681,43674
Montana1,98993256
Idaho1,5711,24163
Maine1,5701,12070
South Dakota1,44979258
Nevada1,21090053
New Hampshire1,15875555
North Dakota1,13558245
Alaska79157761
District of Columbia77662956
Rhode Island76743350
Hawaii75665253
Vermont74649148
Delaware73470065
Wyoming63554657

This table sums to 363,061, not 363,071: 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, 2026-08-15. https://thechurchmap.com/data