Religious “Nones”
Twenty percent of Nebraskans are religious “nones” according to the Pew Research Center’s Religious Landscape Study.
Here’s how the numbers broke down for the 312 Nebraskans surveyed:
- Evangelical Protestant 25%
- Mainline Protestant 24%
- Historically Black Protestant 2%
- Catholic 23%
- Other Christian < 1%
- Orthodox Christian < 1%
- Mormon 1%
- Jehovah’s Witness < 1%
- Jewish < 1%
- Muslim < 1%
- Buddhist 1%
- Hindu 1%
- Other World Religions < 1%
- Other Faiths 1%
- Atheist 1%
- Agnostic 4%
- Nothing in particular 15%
- Don’t know 1%
The “Nothing in particular” group was further broken down into two additional groups:
- Nothing in particular (religion not important) 8%
- Nothing in particular (religion important) 7%
Some metro areas were highlighted in the study results, but unfortunately, no information specific to Lincoln or Omaha is given. I would love to see what these numbers—the religious “nones” in particular—would look like in Lincoln. I assume they would rise, but by how much?