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title: "Religiously Mixed Marriages"
description: "Among married adult Americans, 27% are in religiously mixed marriages."
date: "2008-05-28"
authors:
  - name: "Russell Heimlich"
    job_title: "Former web developer"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/russell-heimlich/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2008/05/28/religiously-mixed-marriages/"
---

# Religiously Mixed Marriages

Among married adult Americans, 27% are in religiously mixed marriages, and if marriages between people of different Protestant denominational families are included, the number of married people in religiously mixed marriages is nearly four-in-ten (37%). Young people are more likely to be in religiously mixed marriages as compared with their older counterparts. Hindus and Mormons are most likely to have a spouse with the same religion (90% and 83%, respectively), while majorities of the unaffiliated population, members of the “other faiths” category and Buddhists are married to someone of a different religious background.[Read More](https://www.pewresearch.org/pubs/743/united-states-religion)