US Counties With the Lowest Catholic Adherents
3,144 US counties ranked by catholic adherents, from lowest to highest. First are Liberty County, FL (0), Union County, FL (0) and Baker County, GA (0). The middle one of the 3,144 has 8.29.
What this measures
Catholic members as a share of the population. They are counted from church records kept by each diocese, which makes this one of the study's most complete figures. 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 lowest counties
Every state, lowest first
Each state’s own published figure, not an average of its counties.
| Rank | State | % of population |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mississippi | 3.37 |
| 2 | Tennessee | 3.99 |
| 3 | Alabama | 4.97 |
| 4 | Arkansas | 5.09 |
| 5 | Alaska | 5.49 |
| 6 | West Virginia | 5.62 |
| 7 | Utah | 6.52 |
| 8 | Oklahoma | 6.92 |
| 9 | Kentucky | 7.86 |
| 10 | South Carolina | 7.97 |
| 11 | Georgia | 8.38 |
| 12 | North Carolina | 8.9 |
| 13 | Virginia | 10.3 |
| 14 | Montana | 10.4 |
| 15 | Washington | 10.7 |
| 16 | Idaho | 11.1 |
| 17 | Oregon | 11.3 |
| 18 | Indiana | 11.5 |
| 19 | District of Columbia | 11.8 |
| 20 | Wyoming | 12.1 |
| 21 | Missouri | 12.5 |
| 22 | Kansas | 14.1 |
| 23 | Maryland | 14.7 |
| 24 | Iowa | 14.8 |
| 25 | Michigan | 14.8 |
| 26 | South Dakota | 15 |
| 27 | Colorado | 15.1 |
| 28 | Ohio | 15.4 |
| 29 | New Hampshire | 16 |
| 30 | Maine | 16.1 |
| 31 | Hawaii | 18.5 |
| 32 | Florida | 19 |
| 33 | Nebraska | 19.1 |
| 34 | Minnesota | 19.5 |
| 35 | Delaware | 19.9 |
| 36 | Texas | 20.3 |
| 37 | Vermont | 20.9 |
| 38 | Wisconsin | 21 |
| 39 | North Dakota | 21.2 |
| 40 | Arizona | 21.3 |
| 41 | Pennsylvania | 21.9 |
| 42 | Illinois | 24.2 |
| 43 | Nevada | 24.7 |
| 44 | California | 26.2 |
| 45 | Louisiana | 26.8 |
| 46 | Connecticut | 28.4 |
| 47 | New Mexico | 29.9 |
| 48 | New York | 30.6 |
| 49 | New Jersey | 32 |
| 50 | Massachusetts | 35.5 |
| 51 | Rhode Island | 40.6 |
More on catholic adherents
- US Counties With the Highest Catholic Adherents
- Catholic 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.