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Key facts about Black Americans and religion

By Kiana Cox, Pew Research

Dec 2, 2025

Black Americans are among the most religious groups in the United States. But religion differs substantially among Black Americans. Similar to patterns seen among the U.S. population overall, older Black adults are more religious than younger Black adults, and women are more religious than men.

Here are key facts about Black Americans and religion, based on Pew Research Center’s 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study (RLS) and other Center surveys.

Most Black Americans are Christian, though the share who identify as such has fallen since 2007. About three-quarters of Black adults (73%) are Christian, including 65% who are Protestant, 4% who are Catholic, and 4% who identify with other Christian groups such as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Jehovah’s Witnesses.

The Christian share of Black adults is down from 79% in 2014 and 85% in 2007. Christian affiliation has similarly declined among the overall U.S. population during this time. Nonetheless, Black adults are more likely than U.S. adults overall to be Christian (73% vs. 62%).

Only 4% of Black adults identify with non-Christian religions, including Islam. And 22% of Black adults are religious “nones,” or adults who are not affiliated with a religion, including 3% who identify as atheist or agnostic and 19% who say their religion is “nothing in particular.”

By several measures, Black Americans are more religious than Americans of other races and ethnicities. Compared with White, Hispanic and Asian adults, Black adults are more likely to believe in God or a universal spirit (95%) and to do so with absolute certainty (74%).

Black adults also are more likely than other racial or ethnic groups to say religion is very important in their lives (58%), to pray daily (64%) and to participate monthly in religious services, whether in person or online (57%).

Around half or fewer of Americans in other racial or ethnic groups say religion is very important to them or pray daily. Even fewer attend religious services monthly.

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