Racial and ethnic composition by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination by race/ethnicity

% of adults who identify as…

Religious denominationWhiteBlackAsianLatinoOther/MixedSample size
African Methodist Episcopal Church2%94%< 1%< 1%3%117
American Baptist Churches USA73%10%1%11%5%463
Anglican Church83%12%< 1%4%1%109
Assemblies of God66%3%< 1%25%5%458
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)65%3%1%28%3%110
Church of God in Christ5%84%< 1%8%4%163
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints85%1%1%8%5%633
Church of the Nazarene88%2%1%7%3%100
Churches of Christ69%16%1%10%4%493
Episcopal Church90%4%1%2%3%491
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)96%2%1%1%1%635
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)88%< 1%1%6%5%817
Interdenominational (Evangelical Trad.)60%25%4%8%4%205
Interdenominational (Mainline Trad.)73%12%1%8%5%136
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod95%2%< 1%1%2%456
National Baptist Convention< 1%99%< 1%1%< 1%462
Nondenominational charismatic68%14%1%11%7%185
Nondenominational evangelical74%7%2%13%4%677
Nondenominational fundamentalist75%9%2%5%9%106
Nothing in particular (religion important)53%18%3%19%6%1,966
Nothing in particular (religion not important)72%7%6%12%4%2,922
Presbyterian Church (USA)88%5%3%4%1%426
Presbyterian Church in America80%6%3%6%5%155
Seventh-day Adventist37%32%8%15%8%160
Southern Baptist Convention85%6%< 1%3%5%1,829
Spiritual but not religious67%10%< 1%16%7%124
Unitarian88%1%< 1%4%7%165
United Church of Christ89%8%< 1%1%2%225
United Methodist Church94%1%1%2%2%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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