US Counties With the Lowest Mainline Protestant Adherents
3,144 US counties ranked by mainline protestant adherents, from lowest to highest. First are Camas County, ID (0), Madison County, ID (0) and Rockcastle County, KY (0). The middle one of the 3,144 has 6.39.
What this measures
Members of mainline Protestant churches, such as United Methodist, Presbyterian Church (USA), Episcopal and Evangelical Lutheran, 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 | 0.48 |
| 2 | Nevada | 1.05 |
| 3 | California | 1.4 |
| 4 | Arizona | 1.61 |
| 5 | Oregon | 2.15 |
| 6 | New Mexico | 2.26 |
| 7 | Hawaii | 2.28 |
| 8 | Washington | 2.59 |
| 9 | Idaho | 2.68 |
| 10 | Colorado | 2.91 |
| 11 | Alaska | 3.04 |
| 12 | Florida | 3.06 |
| 13 | Massachusetts | 3.29 |
| 14 | Louisiana | 3.62 |
| 15 | New York | 3.75 |
| 16 | Rhode Island | 3.85 |
| 17 | Wyoming | 4.07 |
| 18 | New Hampshire | 4.12 |
| 19 | New Jersey | 4.22 |
| 20 | Texas | 4.51 |
| 21 | Montana | 4.68 |
| 22 | Michigan | 4.7 |
| 23 | Maine | 4.86 |
| 24 | Illinois | 5.21 |
| 25 | Kentucky | 5.54 |
| 26 | Arkansas | 5.54 |
| 27 | Vermont | 5.61 |
| 28 | Missouri | 5.69 |
| 29 | Connecticut | 5.83 |
| 30 | Delaware | 6.38 |
| 31 | Maryland | 6.43 |
| 32 | Tennessee | 6.48 |
| 33 | Alabama | 6.48 |
| 34 | Mississippi | 6.56 |
| 35 | Georgia | 6.63 |
| 36 | Ohio | 6.82 |
| 37 | Indiana | 6.87 |
| 38 | South Carolina | 7.42 |
| 39 | Oklahoma | 7.73 |
| 40 | Virginia | 8.06 |
| 41 | Wisconsin | 8.43 |
| 42 | North Carolina | 9.07 |
| 43 | Kansas | 9.62 |
| 44 | Pennsylvania | 9.92 |
| 45 | District of Columbia | 10 |
| 46 | Nebraska | 12 |
| 47 | West Virginia | 12.2 |
| 48 | Minnesota | 13.6 |
| 49 | Iowa | 15.7 |
| 50 | South Dakota | 17.9 |
| 51 | North Dakota | 21 |
More on mainline protestant adherents
- US Counties With the Highest Mainline Protestant Adherents
- Mainline 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.