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Pew Research Center: 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study

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This is a large scale demographic survey fielded among more than thirty five thousand American adults in 2023 and 2024, releasing a public, state by state breakdown of religious composition that a reader can check directly online rather than take on the atlas's word. Its margins of error vary by state and are recorded with each individual state's own figure rather than claimed uniformly here, and it does not cover American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands or the U.S. Virgin Islands. That the survey publishes its own margins and its own coverage gaps is real methodological transparency, not an appeal to the research center's reputation. Use it for the single largest reported religious affiliation group in each American state as of this study; it is a snapshot of self-reported affiliation, not a claim about belief or practice.

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A large-scale demographic survey fielded among more than thirty-five thousand American adults in 2023 and 2024, publishing a public, state-by-state religious composition breakdown a reader can check directly online; its margins of error and coverage gaps are stated plainly rather than glossed over.
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Fielded 2023-2024 among more than 35,000 U.S. adults, released February 26, 2025. Publishes an interactive religious composition table for each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia at pewresearch.org/religious-landscape-study/state/, breaking respondents into named Christian traditions (Evangelical Protestant, Mainline Protestant, Historically Black Protestant, Catholic, Latter-day Saint, Orthodox Christian, Jehovah's Witness, Other Christian), named non-Christian traditions (Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Other World Religions, Something Else) and three unaffiliated rows (Atheist, Agnostic, Nothing in particular). This database's leading-religious-affiliation fact on the state type records the single largest of those rows per state, which is an unaffiliated row rather than a named tradition in a number of states. The study does not cover American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands or the U.S. Virgin Islands. State-level margins of error vary by state population and are recorded with each individual state's own fact rather than on this source, since they differ from state to state.
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Pew Research Center
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Pew Research Center
Publication Year
2025
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https://www.pewresearch.org/religious-landscape-study/
Source Type
Demographic study
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Pew Research Center, Organizations
Source Pew Research Center: Our HistoryPew Research Center
Claims Backed By This Source (268 claims)

This source backs 268 claims across the atlas. As facts: 103 well-attested. As cited relationships: 18 holds, 42 connected. Plus 105 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

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  • States & Territories, 146 claims: 54 well-attested, 41 connected, 51 general references.
  • Articles, 64 claims: 13 well-attested, 3 holds, 1 connected, 47 general references.
  • Denominations, 40 claims: 21 well-attested, 15 holds, 4 general references.
  • Religions, 8 claims: 6 well-attested, 2 general references.
  • Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
  • Organizations, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.

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103

Articles

A Classification Built on Shared History, Not Shared GovernmentA Family Defined by Refusing Denominational StructureKohut Founds a Fact Tank and Religion Gets Better NumbersWhat Mainline Protestantism Means as a Classification

Denominations

American Baptist Churches USALatter-day Saints (Mormonism)Nondenominational ChristianityRoman Catholicism

Organizations

Pew Research Center

Religions

New AgeUnitarian Universalism

Sources

Pew Research Center: 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study

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AlabamaAlaskaArizonaArkansasCaliforniaColoradoConnecticutDelawareDistrict of ColumbiaFloridaGeorgiaHawaiiIdahoIllinoisIndianaIowaKansasKentuckyLouisianaMaineMarylandMassachusettsMichiganMinnesotaMississippiMissouriMontanaNebraskaNevadaNew HampshireNew JerseyNew MexicoNew YorkNorth CarolinaNorth DakotaOhioOklahomaOregon

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Holds

18

Articles

A Classification Built on Shared History, Not Shared GovernmentKohut Founds a Fact Tank and Religion Gets Better NumbersWhat Mainline Protestantism Means as a Classification

Denominations

African Methodist Episcopal ChurchAfrican Methodist Episcopal Zion ChurchAmerican Baptist Churches USAChristian Methodist Episcopal ChurchChurch of God in ChristDisciples of ChristEvangelical Lutheran Church in AmericaNational Baptist Convention of AmericaNational Baptist Convention USA IncorporatedNondenominational ChristianityPresbyterian Church (U.S.A.)Progressive National Baptist ConventionThe Episcopal ChurchThe United Methodist ChurchUnited Church of Christ

Connected

42

Articles

A Family Defined by Refusing Denominational Structure

States & Territories

AlabamaAlaskaArkansasCaliforniaConnecticutDelawareDistrict of ColumbiaFloridaGeorgiaIllinoisIndianaIowaKansasKentuckyLouisianaMassachusettsMinnesotaMississippiMissouriMontanaNebraskaNew JerseyNew MexicoNew YorkNorth CarolinaNorth DakotaOhioOklahomaPennsylvaniaRhode IslandSouth CarolinaSouth DakotaTennesseeTexasUtahVirginiaWashingtonWest VirginiaWisconsin

General References

105

Articles

A Catholic City and the Tradition That Grew Beside ItA Celibate Vow That Emptied the Society by 1905A Company Founded to Win a Vote by Founding TownsA Different Kind of Shaker Church, Founded by a Squaxin ProphetA Family Defined by Refusing Denominational StructureA Federal Code Outlawed the Ceremony for Half a CenturyA Granite Shaft, One Foot for Every Year He LivedA Jesuit Founded It, and Franciscans Finished It Decades LaterA Massacre at a Mill Preceded the Governor's OrderA Minister Dissolved His Own Denomination in One DocumentA Missionary's Supreme Court Case the President IgnoredA Prophecy That Failed in 1844 Became a Church by 1863A Shrine Built Facing South, Toward the Island It MournsA State That Never Passed the Law Its Neighbors DidA Statue in the Ozarks and the Passion Play Beneath ItDenmark Vesey Helped Lead the Church That Was Then BurnedEighth Grade and the First Amendment, Decided UnanimouslyFifty Percent and the History Behind the NumberJohn Wesley's Failed Georgia Ministry, and What Came After ItKohut Founds a Fact Tank and Religion Gets Better NumbersMexican Law Ended the Mission System a Century After It BeganNine Sides, Three Decades, and a Site Chosen in 1912Norwegian Lutherans Split Into Synods Before They ReunitedRussia Revoked a Promise, and German Catholics Left for DakotaSheldon Jackson's Reindeer and the Denominational Map He DrewThe Buckle of the Bible Belt and the Trial That Tested ItThe Burned Church That Led Investigators to Three MurdersThe Choir System That Organized an Entire Moravian TownThe Church Basements That Organized Three Hundred Eighty One DaysThe Church They Called the National Cathedral of African MethodismThe Cradle of Methodism Sits in a Small Delaware ChapelThe First Accredited Buddhist University, and the Poets Who Joined ItThe Fort Still Stands, but the Settlement Pattern Never TookThe Kapu System's End and the Missionaries Who Arrived a Year LaterThe Largest Bioterror Attack in the Country Came From a CommuneThe Last of New England's State Churches Fell in StagesThe Last Shakers Still Open Their Meeting House on SundaysThe Missionary Who Became a Treaty NegotiatorThe Oldest Town in Idaho Thought It Was Still in UtahThe Revolt That Drove the Missions Out for Twelve YearsThe Smallest State and the Widest Founding PromiseThe Toleration Act Was Repealed Within Its Own CenturyThe Town That Calls Itself the Czech Capital of the USAThe Vote That Split a Communal Church From Its Own CorporationThomas Hooker Left Massachusetts Over Who Could Vote in ChurchWest Jersey's Quaker Charter Came Before Pennsylvania'sWhat Mainline Protestantism Means as a Classification

Denominations

American Baptist Churches USALatter-day Saints (Mormonism)Nondenominational Christianity

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