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Over the past decade, every major religious group in America has seen its number of followers flatline or fall, according to new polling. The largest decline was seen among Catholics, with 10.3% ...
In 2023, Minneapolis became the first major city U.S. city to permit the adhan to be broadcast year-round. [58] [59] Subsequently, there was a noticeable increase in attacks on mosques in the Twin Cities, [60] [61] which some Muslim leaders attribute to the new ordinance. [62]
Net Religious (%) Total Christian (%) Evangelical Protestant (%) Mainline Protestant (%) Historically Black Protestant (%) Catholic (%) Latter-day Saint (%) Other (%) None (%) Dallas: 82 78 38 14 7 15 1 4 18 Atlanta: 80 76 33 12 18 11 1 3 20 Houston: 80 73 30 11 9 19 1 4 20 Miami: 79 68 20 11 8 27 <1 10 21 Chicago: 78 71 16 11 8 34 <1 7 22 ...
The religiously unaffiliated were once concentrated in urban, coastal areas, but now live across the U.S., representing a diversity of ages, ethnicities and socioeconomic backgrounds, Drescher said.
The Pew Religious Landscape survey reported that as of 2014, 22.8% of the American population is religiously unaffiliated, atheists made up 3.1% and agnostics made up 4% of the US population. [ 40 ] A 2010 Pew Research Center study comparing Millennials to other generations showed that of those between 18 and 29 years old, only 3% self ...
Mark Skalny/Shutterstock.com. And so, while the US is a secular country, religion still dominates the lives of most of its citizens. After all, over 75% of the population in this country of over ...
On a state level, it is not clear whether the least religious state resides in New England or the Western U.S., as the 2008 American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS) ranked Vermont as the state with the highest percentage of residents claiming no religion at 34%, [10] [11] but a 2009 Gallup poll ranked Oregon as the state with the highest ...
Significant difference in results from other databases include the lower representation of adherents of (1) all kinds (62.7%), (2) Christians (59.9%), (3) Protestants (less than 36%); and the greater number of unaffiliated (37.3%). Percentage of religion against average, 2001