Income distribution among adults with an education level of high school or less by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among adults with an education level of high school or less by household income

% of adults with an education level of high school or less who have a household income of…

Religious denominationLess than $30,000$30,000-$49,999$50,000-$99,999$100,000 or moreSample size
American Baptist Churches USA66%16%14%4%200
Assemblies of God54%19%22%6%173
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints45%16%25%14%107
Churches of Christ50%24%16%10%166
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)39%30%17%15%112
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)52%22%20%6%284
National Baptist Convention68%16%11%4%175
Nondenominational evangelical34%28%32%5%122
Nothing in particular (religion important)59%20%15%7%773
Nothing in particular (religion not important)45%23%21%11%705
Southern Baptist Convention46%23%23%8%565
United Methodist Church40%27%22%10%325
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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