US Counties With the Lowest Religious Adherents

3,144 US counties ranked by religious adherents, from lowest to highest. First are Arthur County, NE (0), Loving County, TX (0) and Alpine County, CA (0). 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 lowest counties

Every state, lowest first

Each state’s own published figure, not an average of its counties.

More on religious adherents

• US Counties With the Highest 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.