According to a 2022 survey, 31 percent of Americans never attend church or synagogue, compared to 20 percent of Americans who attend every week.

Religiosity in the United States

Despite only about a fifth of Americans attending church or synagogue on a weekly basis, almost 40 percent consider themselves to be very religious. Additionally, states in the Deep South such as Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana had the most residents identifying as very religious. In contrast, New England states like Vermont, Maine, and New Hampshire had the most people identifying as nonreligious.

A Christian nation?

Despite the official separation of church and state embedded in the Constitution, many would still consider the United States to be a Christian nation. Catholicism has the largest number of adherents in the United States, due to there being many different Protestant denominations. The Southern Baptist Convention had the largest number of Evangelical adherents, while the United Methodist Church was the largest Mainline Protestant denomination.

The share of Americans who were not a member of a church or synagogue has been increasing since 1992. In 2023, about 55 percent of Americans were not members of a church or synagogue. In that same year, 45 percent of Americans were members of a church or synagogue.

Each year the "https://www.pcusa.org/" Target="_blank">Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) asks its congregations to report numbers pertaining to membership, average attendance, income, and expenditures. This dataset contains these figures for 2012. This dataset can be compared to corresponding data sets from other years to examine trends in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).

This statistic shows a ranking of major American denominations in 2010, by average attendance at worships. In 2010, the median average attendance of worships of the American Baptist Churches USA was 80 people.