{"id":95524,"date":"2025-10-02T12:59:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T18:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kcnonline.com\/wp\/?p=95524"},"modified":"2025-10-02T12:59:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T18:59:44","slug":"kansas-ranks-as-10th-most-religious-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kcnonline.com\/wp\/2025\/10\/02\/kansas-ranks-as-10th-most-religious-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas Ranks as 10th Most Religious State"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Anna Kaminski, Kansas Reflector<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

TOPEKA \u2014 The number of Kansans who are not affiliated with any religion, sometimes called \u201cnones,\u201d has doubled since 2007, in keeping with a national trend of a less religious but more spiritual America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, despite a nearly 15 percentage point decrease in the number of religiously affiliated Kansans in the past 16 years, a September report<\/a> from the Pew Research Center ranked Kansas as the 10th most religious state in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christianity remains the dominant religion in Kansas, led by Protestants and Catholics, according to Pew\u2019s religious landscape study<\/a> that surveyed nearly 37,000 American adults. The national study showed that Christians in particular have stabilized their numbers since 2020, showing they make up anywhere from 60-64% of U.S. adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kansas sits above the national average with 70% of adults identifying with Christianity. But more and more Kansans have rejected religion, favoring spirituality instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Atheists, agnostics and \u201cnones\u201d in Kansas have grown from 14% of adults in 2007 to 20% in 2014 and 28% in the most recent survey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2023 and 2024, 60% of Kansans surveyed considered themselves at least somewhat religious, compared to 72% who considered themselves somewhat or very spiritual. Around 30% of adults in Kansas said in the most recent survey that religion is not too or not at all important, and 43% said it was very important. That\u2019s a marked increase from 2007, when 13% said religion was not important and 61% said it was very important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2014, 76% of Kansans said they were religious, and in 2007, 84% of Kansans claimed a religion. Most Kansas Christians in the most recent survey said they were evangelical or mainline Protestant. Catholics now make up about 18% of Kansas\u2019 Christian population, while less than 1% of Kansans practice other religions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The percentage of Kansans who attend religious services weekly has declined from 48% in 2007 to 34% in 2023 and 2024. Those who seldom or never attend services grew from 21% to 40%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pew cautioned trend comparisons with its most recent data because the two previous surveys were conducted by phone, while the 2023-2024 survey was conducted mostly online and on paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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