US Counties With the Highest Religious Adherents
3,144 US counties ranked by religious adherents, from highest to lowest. First are King County, TX (452), Stonewall County, TX (167) and Harmon County, OK (164). The middle one of the 3,144 has 47.6.
What this measures
Members, their children, and others who attend regularly, as a share of the population. It is above 100% in thirty very small counties, where a congregation draws people from beyond the county it sits in. Source: .
For most measures, a national ranking mostly sorts places by income and by how urban they are. Each county’s own page compares it with the 50 counties most like it instead, which is often the fairer view.
The 100 highest counties
Every state, highest first
Each state’s own published figure, not an average of its counties.
| Rank | State | % of population |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Utah | 76.1 |
| 2 | Alabama | 63.6 |
| 3 | Louisiana | 63.3 |
| 4 | Oklahoma | 61.2 |
| 5 | Mississippi | 59.4 |
| 6 | Arkansas | 57.7 |
| 7 | District of Columbia | 56.4 |
| 8 | Tennessee | 55.6 |
| 9 | South Dakota | 55.4 |
| 10 | North Dakota | 55 |
| 11 | Texas | 55 |
| 12 | Idaho | 52.8 |
| 13 | South Carolina | 52.7 |
| 14 | New Mexico | 52.5 |
| 15 | New Jersey | 52.1 |
| 16 | North Carolina | 52.1 |
| 17 | Rhode Island | 51.5 |
| 18 | New York | 51.2 |
| 19 | Illinois | 50.8 |
| 20 | Georgia | 50.7 |
| 21 | Minnesota | 49.4 |
| 22 | Kentucky | 49.4 |
| 23 | Nebraska | 49.3 |
| 24 | Massachusetts | 48.6 |
| 25 | Missouri | 48.4 |
| 26 | Wisconsin | 48 |
| 27 | Ohio | 47.8 |
| 28 | Connecticut | 47.4 |
| 29 | Florida | 47 |
| 30 | Pennsylvania | 46.8 |
| 31 | Kansas | 46 |
| 32 | Virginia | 45.9 |
| 33 | Iowa | 44.9 |
| 34 | California | 44.8 |
| 35 | Arizona | 44 |
| 36 | Maryland | 43.4 |
| 37 | Indiana | 42.1 |
| 38 | Nevada | 41.6 |
| 39 | Hawaii | 41.5 |
| 40 | Delaware | 41.4 |
| 41 | Washington | 41.3 |
| 42 | Wyoming | 40.4 |
| 43 | Michigan | 39.7 |
| 44 | West Virginia | 37.8 |
| 45 | Vermont | 37.6 |
| 46 | Colorado | 35.3 |
| 47 | Alaska | 35.1 |
| 48 | Montana | 34.9 |
| 49 | Oregon | 33.1 |
| 50 | Maine | 30.8 |
| 51 | New Hampshire | 27.2 |
More on religious adherents
- US Counties With the Lowest Religious Adherents
- Religious adherents by US county: map by year and what it goes with
A ranking describes places, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All US rankings.