America Got a Little More Religious. No, Really.

Ryan Burge · 28 Mar 2026

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A statistically significant change is not the same as an important one, and survey data cannot tell you which it is.

Their wordsWhether that decline matters is a different question — and one the data alone can’t answer.
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Most Americans who report no religious affiliation are not atheists or agnostics.

Their wordsThe first thing that I always point out with this graph is that most nones are not atheists or agnostics.
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The growth of the religiously unaffiliated in America has stopped and gone into reverse.

Their wordsThere’s clearly been a numerical decline in the nones. That seems pretty hard to ignore now, and it’s showing up in multiple data sources.

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