US Counties With the Lowest Evangelical Protestant Adherents
3,144 US counties ranked by evangelical protestant adherents, from lowest to highest. First are Bear Lake County, ID (0), Clark County, ID (0) and Keweenaw County, MI (0). The middle one of the 3,144 has 19.6.
What this measures
Members of evangelical Protestant churches, such as Southern Baptist, Assemblies of God, Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod and about two hundred others, as a share of the population. 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 | Utah | 2.03 |
| 2 | Massachusetts | 3.65 |
| 3 | Rhode Island | 3.83 |
| 4 | New Hampshire | 4.84 |
| 5 | New Jersey | 5.1 |
| 6 | New York | 5.12 |
| 7 | Maine | 6.1 |
| 8 | Nevada | 6.75 |
| 9 | Connecticut | 6.88 |
| 10 | Vermont | 7.25 |
| 11 | California | 8.97 |
| 12 | Delaware | 9.13 |
| 13 | Hawaii | 9.29 |
| 14 | Pennsylvania | 9.74 |
| 15 | Arizona | 10.6 |
| 16 | North Dakota | 10.8 |
| 17 | Iowa | 11 |
| 18 | Wyoming | 11.2 |
| 19 | Maryland | 11.3 |
| 20 | Colorado | 11.7 |
| 21 | Illinois | 11.7 |
| 22 | Minnesota | 11.8 |
| 23 | Michigan | 12.1 |
| 24 | Idaho | 12.4 |
| 25 | Oregon | 12.8 |
| 26 | New Mexico | 12.9 |
| 27 | Montana | 13.7 |
| 28 | Nebraska | 14.4 |
| 29 | Wisconsin | 14.5 |
| 30 | District of Columbia | 15.3 |
| 31 | West Virginia | 16.8 |
| 32 | Kansas | 17.4 |
| 33 | Alaska | 17.9 |
| 34 | Indiana | 18.2 |
| 35 | Florida | 18.4 |
| 36 | Ohio | 19.7 |
| 37 | South Dakota | 20.2 |
| 38 | Virginia | 20.3 |
| 39 | Washington | 20.4 |
| 40 | Texas | 23.5 |
| 41 | Missouri | 24 |
| 42 | Louisiana | 25 |
| 43 | Georgia | 26.2 |
| 44 | North Carolina | 26.6 |
| 45 | South Carolina | 29 |
| 46 | Kentucky | 31.4 |
| 47 | Tennessee | 36.3 |
| 48 | Arkansas | 38.3 |
| 49 | Mississippi | 39 |
| 50 | Oklahoma | 41.9 |
| 51 | Alabama | 42.1 |
More on evangelical protestant adherents
- US Counties With the Highest Evangelical Protestant Adherents
- Evangelical Protestant 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.