How Religiously Unaffiliated Is Your City?

[ErikJ]

With 42 percent of its residents identifying as religiously unaffiliated, Portland occupies a space all its own. “Portlandia,” an urban mecca for eco-conscious free spirits, has substantially more unaffiliated residents than the next three most religiously unaffiliated cities, Seattle (33 percent), San Francisco (33 percent) and Denver (32 percent).

The least unaffiliated city in the U.S.? Nashville, with only 15 percent of its residents identifying as religiously unaffiliated. A plurality (38 percent) of Nashville is white evangelical Protestant.

In fact, generally speaking metro areas in the South have far fewer Americans who identify as religiously unaffiliated than those in the Northeast or West coast.

Find out the religious make-up of your city and state by visiting the AVA.

The American Values Atlas is based on more than 50,000 interviews. Metro areas are based on U.S. Census definitions. The metro areas included in the AVA include the largest and most culturally important urban centers in each region.

http://publicreligion.org/2015/03/how-religiously-unaffiliated-is-your-city/

[stone space]

1. Can't find my city (Ames), so I'll have to go with my state (Iowa).

As an atheist, it seems that I weigh in at 23% (unaffiliated).

As a Catholic, my wife weighs in at 3% (Hispanic Catholic).

http://ava.publicreligion.org/#religious/2014/States/religion/m/US-IA

Looks like I win by a landslide!

[LWolf]

2. While I don't live in or near the city,

The only city in my state on that list is at the very top, at 42%.

[ErikJ]

5. Looks like Oregon state generally is 37% unaffiliated.

Which I think might be the highest %.

http://ava.publicreligion.org/#religious/2014/States/religion/m/US-CA,US-MA,US-MS,US-MT,US-OR

[LWolf]

6. It looks like it is the highest.

I'm not surprised.

[yuiyoshida]

3. YAY

San Francisco!

[Bonx]

4. Go Portland ! The rest are disappointingly low.

[Arugula Latte]

7. YES!! Portland #1!!

Proud of my adopted city!

Old Shake-n-Bake commercial reference here: "Unaffiliated. And I helped!"

[hobbit709]

8. Where is Austin on that list.