The Geography of Religious Diversity in the United States

Figures & data

Table 1 Distribution of major religions in the United States, 2000

Denomination	Adherents	%
Catholicism	62,035,042	22.0
Protestantism	88,869,524	31.6
Orthodox	1,449,274	0.5
Other Christian	4,642,124	1.6
Islam	1,559,294	0.6
Judaism	6,141,325	2.2
Eastern religions ^a	2,560,243	0.9
No affiliation	114,165,080	40.6
Total	281,421,906	100.0
Source: Compiled by authors from data obtained from Glenmary Research Center.

Figure 1 Religious adherents as percentage of total county population, 2000. Intervals contain equal numbers of counties. (Source: Glenmary and Polis data.)

Figure 2 Number of denominations per county, 2000. Intervals contain equal number of counties. (Source: Glenmary data.)

Figure 3 Scatter diagram of number of denominations with county population, 2000. (Source: Glenmary data.)

Table 2 Regression estimates

	Intercept	logP	P
Coefficient	−1.48	−1.20000	−0.0000012
t value	−31.6	89.3	−5.2	R ^2 = 0.7725

Figure 4 Residuals from regression of denominations with population, 2000. Intervals contain equal numbers of counties. (Source: Glenmary and Polis data.)

Figure 5 Share of total adherents in each county's largest denomination, 2000. Intervals contain equal number of counties. (Source: Authors, using Glenmary data.)

Figure 6 Shannon index of religious diversity in 2000, Dorling cartogram. Intervals contain equal numbers of counties. (Source: Glenmary and Polis data.)

Figure 7 Simpson index of religious diversity in 2000, Dorling cartogram. Intervals contain equal number of counties. (Source: Glenmary and Polis data.)