Read the Room

The archive

Faith

What percentage of American adults have a great deal of confidence in organized religion?

15.3% of American adults have a great deal of confidence in organized religion - about 15 in every 100, or 2 in 10. That is the figure published by the General Social Survey for 2024.

0 in 100100 in 100
15.3

Where this number comes from

Survey
General Social Survey
What it measured
GSS 2024 item CONCLERG (“Confidence in organized religion”), counting responses 1=a great deal. 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 = 2,122.
Population
U.S. adults aged 18 and over
Year
2024
95% confidence interval
12.61% to 17.99% (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

Related questions

Now guess five of these cold.

No account, nothing to install, and you can play right now.

Play five on faithTake the test