Seattle Ties for Highest Unaffiliated Rate

0:00Seattle's shedding its religious roots even faster now. Fresh Pew research data from their 2023-2024 religious landscape study shows the Seattle metro area tying for the highest. Share of adults with no religious affiliation nationwide, 44 percent. That's dead even with Christians, who also clock in at 44 percent. This marks a big drop from 2014, when Christians held a majority at 52 percent and the unaffiliated set at 37 percent. The survey pulled from 37,000 folks across 34 major metros in all 50 states, filling the gap since the census skips. Religion questions. Nationwide, the trends the same. Christians dip from 71 percent to 62, while unaffiliated rows from 23 to 29 percent. Seattle matches Portland for top unaffiliated spot, though Portland's Christians lag at 42 percent, making it the only metro where. Non-religious outnumber them. Digging deeper in Seattle, evangelical Protestants, and nothing in particular, both lead

1:03at 21 percent, agnostics hit 14, Catholics, 11, and Buddhist top non-Christians at 4 percent. Charlotte holes the Bible belt flag with 73 percent Christian and just 22 unaffiliated. New Hampshire edges states with 48 percent unaffiliated, while the Pacific Northwest keeps pushing this secular way forward. Answer update from Vancouver News today, powered by AI.