Three in 10 Americans, but 67% of Mormons, attend church regularly. Most religious groups show declines in attendance over the past two decades.

Three in 10 U.S. adults attend religious services regularly, led by Mormons at 67%

As Americans observe Ramadan and prepare to celebrate Easter and Passover, the percentage of adults who report regularly attending religious services remains low. Three in 10 Americans say they attend religious services every week (21%) or almost every week (9%), while 11% report attending about once a month and 56% seldom (25%) or never (31%) attend.

Among major U.S. religious groups, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also widely known as the Mormon Church, are the most observant, with two-thirds attending church weekly or nearly weekly. Protestants (including nondenominational Christians) rank second, with 44% attending services regularly, followed by Muslims (38%) and Catholics (33%).

Majorities of Jewish, Orthodox, Buddhist and Hindu Americans say they seldom or never attend religious services.

  • denast
    28·
    8 months ago

    30℅ regular church attendance is still crazy, blows my European mind. I personally don’t think I have ever met a person who attends it even once a year nor I ever knew of such people through friends.

    • Gabu@lemmy.world
      9·
      8 months ago

      I’m guessing you’re German, Nordic or Slav? The more towards Portugal/Italy you go, the more religious the population is. Even the most religious European country is still far less religious than the US, however.

    • baru@lemmy.world
      8·
      8 months ago

      In Netherlands church attendance has gone down, but it should still be relatively easy to find someone who goes to church. The attendance isn’t divided equally across the Netherlands though. Meaning, it is way higher in small villages than in a city. Which is sometimes easy to see by seeing what political party people have voted for.

      For NL apparently 12% regularly goes to church. And 43% is “aligned” with a church, don’t know what they exactly meant. See https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/longread/statistische-trends/2023/religieuze-betrokkenheid-in-nederland for a Dutch source.

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
        1·
        8 months ago

        Aligned likely means that if they have need of religious services they know what church they’re going to. Shit like weddings and funerals.

      • bitchkat@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        It would mean that they identify as say Lutheran but don’t necessarily attend church.

    • cosmicrookie@lemmy.world
      3·
      8 months ago

      Its basically just for weddings funerals and namegivings at this point and even that only for friends and relatives that are on the more traditional lifestyle