Racial and ethnic composition among adults with some college education by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among adults with some college education by race/ethnicity

% of adults with some college education who identify as…

Religious denominationWhiteBlackAsianLatinoOther/MixedSample size
American Baptist Churches USA69%13%1%11%5%125
Assemblies of God69%3%< 1%22%6%146
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints83%1%1%7%8%214
Churches of Christ70%15%< 1%9%6%157
Episcopal Church97%1%< 1%1%1%102
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)98%2%< 1%< 1%< 1%178
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)88%< 1%1%5%6%257
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod92%3%< 1%2%2%133
National Baptist Convention< 1%100%< 1%< 1%< 1%118
Nondenominational evangelical70%7%< 1%18%4%198
Nothing in particular (religion important)56%19%2%16%7%533
Nothing in particular (religion not important)72%7%6%11%5%772
Southern Baptist Convention84%7%< 1%4%5%594
United Methodist Church94%1%2%1%3%428
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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