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What percentage of American adults go to religious services every week or more?

20% of American adults go to religious services every week or more - about 20 in every 100, or 2 in 10. That is the figure published by the General Social Survey for 2024.

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Where this number comes from

Survey
General Social Survey
What it measured
GSS 2024 item ATTEND (“How often R attends religious services”), counting responses 7=every week, 8=several times a week. Computed from NORC's public-use microdata with the survey weight WTSSNRPS and a Taylor-linearised standard error over the published design variables VSTRAT and VPSU; unweighted n = 3,276.
Population
U.S. adults aged 18 and over
Year
2024
95% confidence interval
17.73% to 22.27% (derived from the published standard error)

NORC at the University of Chicago; public-use microdata, free for research and educational use. Percentages computed here, with attribution.. See the source data

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