Portland, Oregon is the least religious city in the US with 42 per cent of its population self-identifying as “religiously unaffiliated,” according to the findings of a new survey.
The research by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) compares the religiosity of different metropolitan areas.
It discovered that Nashville, Tennessee has the highest degree of religious identification, with 85 per cent of its residents identifying with a particular religion.
Cities with large Catholic populations tend to dominate the middle of the PRRI scales: 24 per cent of people in Boston are religiously unaffiliated, as are 20 per cent of Philadelphians and 19 per cent of New Yorkers.
The cities with the highest rates of religious unaffiliation are all in the West. After Portland, the five cities with the highest rates are Seattle, San Francisco, Denver and Phoenix. Conversely, the five most religious cities are all in the South with Houston, Dallas, Atlanta and Charlotte joining Nashville in the top five.
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