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The Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) has made annual estimates about religious adherence in the United States every year since 2013, and they most recently updated their data in 2020. Their data can be broken down to the state level, and data has also been made available of several large metro areas.
The 2020 United States census was the 24th decennial United States census.Census Day, the reference day used for the census, was April 1, 2020.Other than a pilot study during the 2000 census, [1] this was the first U.S. census to offer options to respond online or by phone, in addition to the paper response form used for previous censuses.
and in the United States by state, asking the degree to which respondents consider themselves to be religious. The Pew Research Center and Public Religion Research Institute have conducted studies of reported frequency of attendance to religious service. [2] The Harris Poll has conducted surveys of the percentage of people who believe in God. [3]
In the United States, religious observance is much higher than in Europe, and the United States' culture leans conservative in comparison to other western nations, in part due to the Christian element. Liberal Christianity, exemplified by some theologians, sought to bring to churches new critical approaches to the Bible. Sometimes called ...
The 2020 United States Religion Census estimates that there are about 4,453,908 Muslim Americans of all ages living in the United States in 2020, making up 1.34% of the total U.S. population. [2] In 2017, twenty states, mostly in the South and Midwest, reported Islam to be the largest non-Christian religion. [3]
Under federal law, the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, [40] the number of first-generation immigrants living in the United States has increased, [41] from 9.6 million in 1970 to about 38 million in 2007. [42] Around a million people legally immigrated to the United States per year in the 1990s, up from 250,000 per year in the 1950s. [43]
The census includes territories of the United States. [2] The United States Census Bureau is responsible for conducting the census. The most recent national census took place in 2020; the next census is scheduled for 2030. Since 2013, the Census Bureau began discussions on using technology to aid data collection starting with the 2020 census. [3]
In 2015, Pew Research Center reported a decline among the Orthodox Churches in the United States. [126] The Public Religion Research Institute's 2020 Census of American Religion showed that the overall decline of white Christians in America had slowed, stabilizing at around 44% of the population.