Age distribution among college graduates by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among college graduates by age group

% of college graduates who are ages…

Religious denomination18-2930-4950-6465+Sample size
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints16%55%17%13%202
Episcopal Church9%28%31%31%172
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)11%34%29%26%184
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)15%35%37%13%168
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod11%34%33%22%118
Nondenominational evangelical19%43%30%8%220
Nothing in particular (religion important)23%48%21%8%375
Nothing in particular (religion not important)26%44%19%11%768
Presbyterian Church (USA)4%32%30%34%126
Southern Baptist Convention12%42%30%16%370
United Methodist Church9%35%31%26%481
Sample sizes and margins of error vary from subgroup to subgroup, from year to year and from state to state. You can see the sample size for the estimates in this chart on rollover or in the last column of the table. And visit this table to see approximate margins of error for a group of a given size. Readers should always bear in mind the approximate margin of error for the group they are examining when making comparisons with other groups or assessing the significance of trends over time. For full question wording, see the survey questionnaire.

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