
Post-Election Data Shows Nonreligious Population in US Has Plateaued
Ryan Burge, the research director for the religious outreach initiative Faith Counts, said the 2024 data reveals the country’s population of ‘nones’ has leveled off.
Ryan Burge, the research director for the religious outreach initiative Faith Counts, said the 2024 data reveals the country’s population of ‘nones’ has leveled off.
Several factors contribute to the initial surge, along with the subsequent stabilization in the percentage of Americans who don’t identify with a particular religion, according to Burge.
Pew’s new report, released Jan. 24, shows that nones now account for 28% of the total U.S. population, outstripping the next largest group, Catholics, who make up 20%.
Every vote counted in the tightly contested 2020 presidential race, which means that that even minor shifts among religious groups could have had an outsized impact on the outcome.
As left and right defend their respective ideological bailiwicks, the Church continues to hemorrhage young people.
According to a new poll, the number of Americans with no religious affiliation now exceeds the number of Catholics, the nation’s largest Christian denomination.
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