Church Membership Is At An All-Time Low

A new Gallup report finds Church membership in America is at an all-time low.

The new report analyzing religious membership of Americans have found that an average of 50% of Americans in 2018 said they belong or are members of a church or other religious institution. This represents a 20-percentage-point decline in church membership over the past 20 years, and the lowest it has been since Gallup began polling the question in 1937.

Previously church membership reported being at least 70% or more from the years 1937 through 1976.

For Democrats, independents, Hispanics and men, fewer than half report being members of a church or other religious institution, according to the data.

As previous polling has shown, the decline in church membership coincides with an increase in Americans who claim they don’t have any religious affiliation. The data also shows that Americans with a religious affiliation has dropped to 77%, down from 90%.

The Gallup report adds that low level of church membership among millennials (42%) is also contributing to such an accelerating trend.

The number of Protestants who belong to a church remained relatively stable, dropping by only 6% points over that time.