Overview
- New Pew data show roughly 70% of U.S. adults have identified with a religion each year since 2020, ending a decades-long slide for now.
- Key practice indicators have held steady in recent years, including daily prayer (46%), saying religion is important (43%), and monthly service attendance (34%).
- Young adults remain far less religious than seniors, with 55% of those born 1995–2002 identifying with a religion compared with 83% of the oldest adults.
- The very youngest adults show higher engagement than slightly older peers—61% identify with a religion and 41% attend monthly—though Pew notes such levels often fade as they leave home.
- Other polling points to divergence across measures, with Gallup finding 49% now say religion is important in daily life, down from 66% in 2015, while campus ministries report localized increases in student participation.