Saturday, April 14, 2012

Faith Distributions by State

Do you want to know how many people of each religious faith there are in your state, or some other state? USA Today has put together an interactive map of the proportions of each religion in each state, based on survey data from the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.

There is some aggregation of the data; don't expect to see how many Methodists there are in your state. They are grouped with "Mainline Protestant." I think you'll be surprised at how many people are "unaffiliated," which may mean atheist, agnostic, or believe but don't go to church.