The proportion of non-religious people in America is growing in every U.S. state except South Dakota, new research suggests.
Newsweek's map, below, shows where the change is happening, comparing the oldest available data—from 2007 or in some cases 2014—from Pew's Religious Landscape Study and its most recent, from 2023-24, which surveyed more than 35,000 Americans in all 50 states.
These identifying as "religiously unaffiliated"—atheists, agnostics or as "nothing in particular"—accounted for 29 percent of the national population in 2024's survey. That represents a 13 percent increase from 2007.
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