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Religious Landscape Study

The Religious Landscape Study (RLS) – conducted in 2007, 2014 and 2023-24 – surveys more than 35,000 Americans in all 50 states about their religious affiliations, beliefs and practices along with their social and political views and demographic characteristics.About this study.

Geography

Find religious data by metro area, state or region (Midwest,Northeast,South orWest), or for the wholeUnited States. Select a state or metro area dot to get religious information at a glance.Then click the green button for more data.

identify as Christians

identify with other religions

identify as religiously unaffiliated

Find data on religious and spiritual beliefs and practices, as well as social and political views, for the geographic area selected. Figures may not sum to 100% due to rounding.

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U.S. religious groups

Get data on the beliefs, attitudes and demographic traits of religious groups.

Christians

of U.S. adults identify as Christians.

Evangelical Protestant
23%
Mainline Protestant
11%
Historically Black Protestant
5%
Catholic
19%
Latter-day Saint (Mormon)
2%
Orthodox Christian
1%
Jehovah's Witness
<1%
Other Christian
1%
- Metaphysical family
  <1%
  - Spiritualist
    <1%
  - Unity Church
    <1%
  - Other metaphysical Christian ("Other Christian" trad.)
    <1%
- Others in the "Other Christian" tradition
  1%

Other religions

of U.S. adults identify with other religions.

Jewish
2%
Muslim
1%
Buddhist
1%
Hindu
1%
Other world religions
<1%
Something else
2%
- Unitarians and other liberal faiths
  1%
  - Unitarian
    <1%
  - Humanist
    <1%
  - Deist
    <1%
  - Spiritual but not religious
    1%
  - Eclectic/A bit of everything/"I have my own beliefs"
    <1%
  - Other in the "Unitarian and other liberal faiths" family
    <1%
- New Age
  1%
  - Pagan or Wiccan
    <1%
  - Other in the New Age family
    <1%
- Native American religions
  <1%

Religiously unaffiliated

of U.S. adults identify as religiously unaffiliated.

Note: 1% did not answer the question. Figures may not sum to 100% due to rounding.
Margin of error for figures based on the full sample is ±0.8 percentage points.

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Religious Landscape Study

Religious Landscape Study

Geography

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U.S. religious groups

Christians

Other religions

Religiously unaffiliated

Contents

Demographics

Beliefs & practices

Social & political views

Related RLS content

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Methodology for the 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study

About the Religious Landscape Study

All Religious Landscape Study Publications