New England's Most Religious Cities

New England's Most Religious Cities

How religious are New England's major cities? Not very, according to Gallup's recent survey of almost 200 metropolitan areas nationwide.

In fact, the highest ranking New England city—New Haven, CT—ranked #155 out of 189 cities.

The biggest believers were in Provo-Orem, UT ranked highest in religiosity with 77 percent of respondents describing themselves as "very religious."

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With the exception of the Provo-Orem, UT area, the five most religious metropolitan areas tended to be located in the South: Montgomery, AL; Jackson, MS; Birmingham-Hoover, AL and Huntsville, AL took the next four spots.

The least religious cities tended toward the Northeast and the West, excepting Boulder and Madison in Wisconsin.

According to a separate Gallup survey, about 40 percent of Americans are religious overall. The 2012 study on metropolitan area religiosity showed a strong range of diversity throughout individual metropolitan regions, with a 60-percentage point difference between the most and least religious areas.

Read on to see where New England's major metropolitan areas placed in the ranking...