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Aug 16, 2022 · The largest Christian denomination in Ohio is Protestants (53%) followed by Roman Catholics (18%), Mormonism (1%), Jehovah’s Witnesses (1%), and Other Christian (1%). 22% of the population don’t follow or adhere to any faith or religion and the rest 4% follow other non-Christian-based religions.
Compare: religious attendance by state. % of adults in Ohio who pray… Sample size = 1,132. Visit this table to see approximate margins of error for a group of a given size. For full question wording, see the survey questionnaire. Compare: frequency of prayer by state. % of adults in Ohio who attend prayer group… Sample size = 1,132.
- Worship Service Attendance
- Congregational Membership
- Participation in Scripture Study Or Prayer Groups
- Private Devotions
- Sharing One’S Faith
- Spiritual Experiences
Overall, 36% of Americans now say they attend religious services at least once a week, down from 39% in 2007. This decline is accompanied by a rise in the share of U.S. adults who say they seldom or never attend religious services (from 27% in 2007 to 30% in 2014).10 As they do on many traditional measures of religious observance, Jehovah’s Witness...
Half of U.S. adults say they belong to a local house of worship. Among Christian groups, about seven-in-ten people who identify with the historically black Protestant tradition (72%) and the evangelical Protestant tradition (69%) say they belong to a local congregation. Roughly six-in-ten Catholics (59%) and 57% of mainline Protestants say they are...
A quarter of American adults (24%) say they participate in prayer groups, scripture study groups or other types of religious education at least once a week. Although the share of Americans who identify with a religion has been shrinking, the percentage of religiously affiliated adults who report participation in prayer groups, scripture study group...
While a majority of Americans continue to say they pray at least once a day (55%), the share of U.S. adults who seldom or never pray has increased from 18% to 23% since 2007. This change is mainly tied to the growing share of Americans who say they have no religious affiliation. Religiously unaffiliated adults pray far less frequently compared with...
About a quarter of adults in the U.S. who are affiliated with a particular religion (26%) say they share their faith with others at least once a week, up 3 percentage points since 2007. Christians are much more likely than members of non-Christian faiths to share their faith with others. Jehovah’s Witnesses are known for going door to door to discu...
Most Americans (59%) say they experience a sense of spiritual peace and well-being at least once a week, up by 7 percentage points since 2007. And 46% of Americans report feeling a deep sense of wonder about the universe on a weekly basis, also up 7 points. Groups that exhibit the highest levels of religious observance on traditional measures of re...
- Benjamin Wormald
May 15, 2023 · Between 2019-2022, attendance at least a few times a year dropped to half or less for white Catholics (73% to 45%) and Hispanic Catholics (65% to 47%). While more than 6 out of 10 white evangelical Protestants, Protestants of color, and Latter-day Saints remain regular churchgoers, their attendance also experienced slight declines since 2019.
Our initial study, based on attendance counts in Protestant churches in one Ohio county and Catholic churches in 18 dioceses, indicated a much lower rate of religious participation than the polls report. Instead of 40 percent of Protestants attending church, we found 20 percent.
During a household interview, survey participants were asked, “How often do you attend church or religious services?” Interviewers recalculated responses as times/year. Values ranged from 0 to 1825 times per year.
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Jun 21, 2024 · Explore the declining trend in church attendance over the past decade. Discover key factors and church attendance statistics shaping religious participation in the US.
