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May 30, 2022 · With an estimated 228.1 million Christians in the United States (including non-actives), that’s an average of 760 members per congregation. If this ratio is projected to the whole world, that gives us a much more down to earth figure of 3.1 million church buildings.
The majority of Christian Americans are Protestant Christians (140 million; 42%), though there are also significant numbers of American Roman Catholics (70 million; 21%) and other Christian denominations such as The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Eastern Orthodox Christians and Oriental Orthodox Christians, and Jehovah's Witnesses ...
May 12, 2015 · Evangelicals now make up a clear majority (55%) of all U.S. Protestants. In 2007, 51% of U.S. Protestants identified with evangelical churches. While the overall Christian share of the population has dropped in recent years, the number of Americans who do not identify with any religion has soared.
Hartford Institute estimates there are roughly 350,000 religious congregations in the United States. This estimate relies on the RCMS 2010 religious congregations census. Of those, about 314,000 are Protestant and other Christian churches, and 24,000 are Catholic and Orthodox churches.
Aug 3, 2023 · Largest Christian Denominations in America: The Top 100 Christianity is an important part of the American story in its various denominational expressions. Some denominations came to America from Europe, while others started on American soil.
Jan 6, 2020 · Church historians, sociologists, and statisticians are going county by county, denomination by denomination, group of believers by group of believers, to compile the most complete record of...
In recent decades, estimates for the total number of religious congregations in the United States have ranged from 268,000 to 414,000.2 The USRC in 2020 reported 356,642 congregations in 3,141 of 3,143 counties.
