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What percentage of American adults never go to religious services?

29.5% of American adults never go to religious services - about 30 in every 100, or 3 in 10. That is the figure published by the General Social Survey for 2024.

Where this number comes from

Survey

General Social Survey

What it measured

GSS 2024 item ATTEND (“How often R attends religious services”), counting responses 0=never. 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

27.04% to 31.96% (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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