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Using data from the 1980-2020 U.S. Religion Census, this list ranks U.S. States on the percent of all residents that are affiliated with a religious organization.


Rank
2020
Rank
2010
Rank
2000
Rank
1990
Rank
1980
State Percent
2020
Percent
2010
Percent
2000
Percent
1990
Percent
1980
17 16 6 2 1 Rhode Island 51.5 54.81 63.45 76.73 75.54
1 1 1 1 2 Utah 76.09 79.1 74.73 79.75 75.19
11 2 2 3 3 North Dakota 55.01 67.12 73.2 75.86 73.93
9 7 4 7 4 South Dakota 55.37 58.56 67.81 68.1 66.92
21 9 7 11 5 Minnesota 49.49 56.3 61.7 64.85 65.09
24 8 5 10 6 Massachusetts 48.64 57.24 64.09 65.52 64.65
26 20 9 12 7 Wisconsin 48.04 53.58 60.43 64.6 64.56
23 10 11 14 8 Nebraska 49.27 55.65 58.83 63.77 63.21
28 23 16 15 9 Connecticut 47.37 51.22 57.87 62.29 61.56
33 18 13 22 10 Iowa 44.86 53.91 58.48 60.54 61.4
30 19 15 18 11 Pennsylvania 46.89 53.83 57.94 61.36 60.95
14 28 14 26 12 New Mexico 52.51 50.07 58.15 58.69 58.92
4 5 8 8 13 Oklahoma 61.17 59.34 60.75 66.83 57.98
2 3 21 4 14 Alabama 63.6 62.92 54.76 70.96 57.4
3 4 12 5 15 Louisiana 63.32 60.59 58.78 70.5 57.37
19 14 20 25 16 Illinois 50.81 55.29 55.29 59.91 55.11
5 6 22 6 17 Mississippi 59.43 58.73 54.64 70.18 55.04
10 10 19 13 18 Texas 55.05 55.65 55.5 64.14 54.69
8 12 25 20 19 Tennessee 55.63 55.5 51.07 61.2 54.28
22 22 23 23 20 Kentucky 49.4 51.56 53.43 60.44 54.16
15 17 17 19 21 New Jersey 52.17 54.7 57.74 61.25 54.15
6 13 18 21 22 Arkansas 57.76 55.36 57.11 60.62 53.98
16 30 32 24 23 North Carolina 52.14 47.51 45.36 60.01 53.95
25 29 24 28 24 Missouri 48.4 49.27 51.7 57.55 53.58
31 27 26 29 25 Kansas 46.02 50.62 49.36 54.67 53.44
13 21 29 16 26 South Carolina 52.67 52.17 47.57 61.88 51.41
12 25 27 31 27 Idaho 52.73 51.13 48.47 50.4 50.05
18 24 10 9 28 New York 51.22 51.2 60.39 65.66 49.67
27 34 33 32 29 Ohio 47.85 43.96 44.94 50.12 49.51
7 15 3 17 30 District Of Columbia 56.44 55.23 73.16 61.65 48.94
45 49 44 42 31 Vermont 37.63 33.62 39.13 42.07 47.84
20 26 34 27 32 Georgia 50.78 50.83 44.77 57.58 47.04
29 40 40 38 33 Florida 47.07 39.13 41.14 43.84 46.22
37 33 37 36 34 Indiana 42.14 44.32 42.9 47.52 44.78
51 45 28 44 35 New Hampshire 27.21 35.15 47.66 39.51 44.31
48 41 35 40 36 Montana 34.83 38.1 44.72 42.7 44.27
42 39 30 35 37 Wyoming 40.39 39.57 46.72 47.7 44.18
43 35 38 30 38 Michigan 39.67 42.14 41.83 50.41 42.67
32 32 39 34 39 Virginia 45.99 44.82 41.58 47.93 41.76
50 51 45 46 40 Maine 30.79 27.63 36.35 36.4 41.01
40 37 41 37 41 Delaware 41.35 41.75 40.59 45.98 40.3
36 36 36 33 42 Maryland 43.47 41.83 43.27 48.34 40.21
44 44 47 43 43 West Virginia 37.77 35.52 35.94 41.37 39.7
35 43 42 39 44 Arizona 44.06 37.23 39.91 43.03 39.47
46 42 43 45 45 Colorado 35.4 37.82 39.45 39.29 36.59
49 50 51 50 46 Oregon 33.18 31.18 31.31 32.2 36.05
34 31 31 41 47 California 44.83 45 46.09 42.28 34.46
39 38 46 47 48 Hawaii 41.48 41.31 36.2 35.26 33.2
41 46 50 48 49 Washington 41.33 34.61 32.96 33.13 30.99
47 48 48 49 50 Alaska 35.18 33.9 34.32 32.24 30.71
38 47 49 51 51 Nevada 41.6 34.36 34.28 32.14 29.2
                     

Note that data collection methods for religious bodies change over time, affecting the comparability of statistics. For further information, see the U.S. Religion Census website at https://www.usreligioncensus.org/.

The 2020 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and include data for 373 religious bodies or groups. Of these, the ASARB was able to gather data on congregations and adherents for 217 and on congregations only for 156.

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