Immigrant status by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination by immigrant status

% of adults who are…

Religious denominationImmigrantsSecond generationThird generation or higherSample size
African Methodist Episcopal Church2%2%96%117
American Baptist Churches USA8%4%87%457
Anglican Church26%7%67%111
Assemblies of God20%8%72%452
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)21%12%67%111
Church of God in Christ17%2%81%161
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints7%6%87%635
Church of the Nazarene8%< 1%92%100
Churches of Christ6%6%88%493
Episcopal Church6%9%85%490
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)3%8%89%637
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)4%6%90%816
Interdenominational (Evangelical Trad.)5%10%85%202
Interdenominational (Mainline Trad.)6%12%83%138
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod3%6%92%457
National Baptist Convention3%1%96%448
Nondenominational charismatic5%9%86%185
Nondenominational evangelical8%10%81%677
Nondenominational fundamentalist7%6%88%107
Nothing in particular (religion important)16%9%75%1,969
Nothing in particular (religion not important)13%12%75%2,914
Presbyterian Church (USA)9%4%87%426
Presbyterian Church in America4%10%85%158
Seventh-day Adventist36%11%52%161
Southern Baptist Convention2%2%96%1,828
Spiritual but not religious9%8%83%126
Unitarian4%10%86%162
United Church of Christ6%7%87%224
United Methodist Church4%4%91%1,630
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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