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U.S. Religion Survey Data

This page lists data from larger surveys covering a broad range of questions across multiple religious and demographic groups throughout the United States. This includes the Religious Landscape Studies conducted in 2007 and 2014, surveys of Jewish Americans and faith among Black Americans in 2020, and surveys of Muslim Americans conducted in 2007, 2011 and 2017.

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This Pew Research Center survey includes data on religion and the environment. It was fielded online among 10,156 U.S. adult respondents from April 11 to 17, 2022.

Featured publication: How Religion Intersects With Americans’ Views on the Environment


This Pew Research Center survey provides data on religion in politics. It was fielded online among 12,055 U.S. adult respondents from March 1 to March 7, 2021. 

Featured publication: In U.S., Far More Support Than Oppose Separation of Church and State


This study is Pew Research Center’s most comprehensive, in-depth attempt to explore religion among Black Americans. Responses were collected from Nov. 19, 2019, to June 3, 2020, with most of the 8,660 Black adult respondents completing the survey between Jan. 21 and Feb. 10, 2020. 

Featured publication: Faith Among Black Americans


The survey interviewed 4,718 U.S. adults who identify as Jewish, including 3,836 Jews by religion and 882 Jews of no religion. The survey was administered online and by mail from Nov. 19, 2019, to June 3, 2020. 

Featured publication: Jewish Americans in 2020


Pew Research Center surveyed 1,811 pairs of U.S. teens and their parents – one parent and one teen from each household. The survey was conducted online from March 29 to April 14, 2019. 

Featured publication: U.S. Teens Take After Their Parents Religiously, Attend Services Together and Enjoy Family Rituals


This Pew Research Center survey includes data on religion in public life, including the impact of coronavirus on religious participation. It was fielded online among 10,211 U.S. adult respondents from July 13 to 19, 2020. 

Featured publication: Americans Oppose Religious Exemptions From Coronavirus-Related Restrictions


This Pew Research Center survey includes data on religion in public life. It was fielded online among 6,395 U.S. adult respondents from Feb. 4 to 15, 2020. 

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This Pew Research Center survey includes data on religion in public life. It was fielded online among 6,364 U.S. adult respondents from March 18 to April 1, 2019. 

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This Pew Research Center survey includes fact-based questions gauging Americans’ religious knowledge. It was fielded online among 10,971 U.S. adult respondents from Feb. 4 to 19, 2019. 

Featured publication: What Americans Know About Religion


This Pew Research Center survey includes many questions used to create a new religious typology of U.S. adults, as well as questions about belief in God. It was fielded among 4,729 U.S. adult respondents from Dec. 4 to 18, 2017. 

Featured publication: The Religious Typology


This Pew Research Center survey of U.S. Muslims was conducted from Jan. 23 to May 2, 2017, on landlines and cellphones, among a representative sample of 1,001 Muslim adults living in the United States. This is the third time Pew Research Center has conducted a comprehensive survey of U.S. Muslims. 

Featured publication: U.S. Muslims Concerned About Their Place in Society, but Continue to Believe in the American Dream


This Pew Research Center survey includes data on Americans’ feelings toward a variety of religious groups. It was fielded online among 4,248 U.S. adult respondents from Jan. 9 to 23, 2017. 

Featured publication: Americans Express Increasingly Warm Feelings Toward Religious Groups


This Pew Research Center survey includes questions on Americans’ views toward religious liberty as it relates to social issues, such as same-sex marriage. It was fielded online and by mail among 4,538 U.S. adult respondents from Aug. 16 to Sept. 12, 2016. 

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This Pew Research Center survey includes data on views toward religious clergy. It was fielded online and by mail among 4,602 U.S. adult respondents from June 7 to July 5, 2016.

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This Pew Research Center survey was conducted May 5 to June 7, 2015, on landlines and cellphones among a national probability sample of 5,122 adults, including 1,016 self-identified Catholics. The survey examines Catholics’ views about a wide range of family issues.

Featured publication: U.S. Catholics Open to Non-Traditional Families


This is Pew Research Center’s second U.S. Religious Landscape Study, a follow-up to its first comprehensive study of religion in America conducted in 2007. This study – which includes a large sample size of 35,071 U.S. adults reached by telephone (landlines and cellphones) June 4 to Sept. 30, 2014 was designed to obtain a minimum of 300 interviews with respondents in each state and the District of Columbia, as well as to represent the country’s largest metropolitan areas. It also permits analysis of a variety of relatively small religious groups and denominations.

Featured publication: America’s Changing Religious Landscape


This Pew Research Center survey includes data on the role of religion in Americans’ everyday lives. It was fielded online and by mail among 3,278 U.S. adult respondents from Aug. 11 to Sept. 3, 2014. 

Featured publication: Religion in Everyday Life


This Pew Research Center survey includes data on religion, technology and feelings toward various religious groups. It was fielded online and by mail among 3,217 U.S. adult respondents from May 30 to June 30, 2014. 

Featured publication: How Americans Feel About Religious Groups


This is Pew Research Center’s first survey focusing on the attitudes, beliefs and practices of U.S. Jews. The Center surveyed 3,475 U.S. adults who identify as Jewish, including 2,786 Jews by religion and 689 Jews of no religion. The survey was administered by telephone (landlines and cellphones) from Feb. 20 to June 13, 2013.

Featured publication: A Portrait of Jewish Americans


This Pew Research Center survey focuses on Americans’ views on aging, longevity and end-of-life issues. It was conducted by telephone (landlines and cellphones) among 4,006 U.S. adult respondents from March 21 to April 8, 2013.

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This 2013 Pew Research Center survey focuses on religion among Hispanic adults living in the U.S. The nationally representative survey of Hispanics was conducted by telephone (cellphones and landlines) with 5,103 Hispanic adults from May 24 to July 28, 2013.

Featured publication: The Shifting Religious Identity of Latinos in the United States


This Pew Research Center survey of 1,019 Mormons was conducted by telephone Oct. 25 to Nov. 16, 2011. It focuses on Mormons’ religious beliefs and practices as well as their political and social views and their perspectives on their place in society. 

Featured publication: Mormons in America – Certain in Their Beliefs, Uncertain of Their Place in Society


This Pew Research Center survey of U.S. Muslims was conducted April 14 to July 22, 2011, on landlines and cellphones among a representative sample of 1,033 Muslim adults living in the United States. This is the second time Pew Research Center has conducted a comprehensive survey of U.S. Muslims. 

Featured publication: Muslim Americans: No Signs of Growth in Alienation or Support for Extremism


This Pew Research Center survey includes fact-based questions gauging Americans’ religious knowledge. It was conducted among 3,412 U.S. adults, on landlines and cellphones, from May 19 to June 6, 2010. 

Featured publication: U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey


This 2008 Pew Research Center survey is a follow-up to the 2007 U.S. Religious Landscape Survey, and is based on recontact interviews with members of the largest segments of the population that have changed religious affiliation. It was conducted on landlines among 2,867 adults from Oct. 3 to Nov. 7, 2008.

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This is Pew Research Center’s first U.S. Religious Landscape Study, a comprehensive study of religion in America. This study, which includes a large sample size of 35,556 U.S. adults reached by telephone May 8 to Aug. 13, 2007, was designed to represent the country’s religious population and permit analysis of a variety of relatively small religious groups and denominations.

Featured publication: U.S. Religious Landscape Survey: Religious Beliefs and Practices


This is the first comprehensive Pew Research Center survey of U.S. Muslims, conducted Jan. 24 to April 30, 2007, on telephones among a representative sample of 1,050 Muslim adults living in the United States. It focuses on Muslim Americans’ religious beliefs and practices as well as their political and social views and their perspectives on their place in society. 

Featured publication: Muslim Americans: Middle Class and Mostly Mainstream


This Pew Research Center survey includes 4,016 interviews with Latinos conducted by telephone Aug. 10 to Oct. 4, 2006.

Featured publication: Changing Faiths: Latinos and the Transformation of American Religion