New England’s Most Religious Cities
Friday, April 19, 2013
In fact, the highest ranking New England city—New Haven, CT—ranked #155 out of 189 cities.
The biggest believers were in Provo-Orem, UT ranked highest in religiosity with 77 percent of respondents describing themselves as "very religious."
With the exception of the Provo-Orem, UT area, the five most religious metropolitan areas tended to be located in the South: Montgomery, AL; Jackson, MS; Birmingham-Hoover, AL and Huntsville, AL took the next four spots.
The least religious cities tended toward the Northeast and the West, excepting Boulder and Madison in Wisconsin.
According to a separate Gallup survey, about 40 percent of Americans are religious overall. The 2012 study on metropolitan area religiosity showed a strong range of diversity throughout individual metropolitan regions, with a 60-percentage point difference between the most and least religious areas.
Read on to see where New England's major metropolitan areas placed in the ranking...
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