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What percentage of American adults didn't go to a religious service even once in the past year?
47.7% of American adults didn't go to a religious service even once in the past year - about 48 in every 100, or 5 in 10. That is the figure published by the Household Pulse Survey for 2026.
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Where this number comes from
- Survey
- Household Pulse Survey
- What it measured
- HTOPS HPS 2607 (collected July 15 – August 3, 2026), item SOC_RELSERVICES (“During the past 12 months, how many times did you attend religious services?”), counting responses 1=Zero, as a share of adults who answered (4.5% did not). Computed from the Census Bureau's public-use microdata with the person weight PWEIGHT; the standard error uses its 80 successive-difference replicate weights (4/80 · Σ of squared deviations). The counts and standard errors behind it reproduce the published table health3d. Census labels these estimates experimental; unweighted n = 12,184.
- Population
- U.S. adults aged 18 and over
- Year
- 2026
- 95% confidence interval
- 44.88% to 50.52% (derived from the published standard error)
Work of the U.S. federal government - public domain. See the source data
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