Religion by the numbers

Here's a look at a few of the findings of the newly released, once-a-decade U.S. Religion Census, which includes county-level data on congregations for 236 American religious bodies, with data on adherents available for 153 participating bodies.

The study was assembled by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies and included self-reported numbers from 17 of the country's largest religious groups.

• Total number of religious adherents nationwide -- 150,686,156
• Percentage of total U.S. population -- 48.8 percent

Religions by percent of U.S. population, 2010:

• Catholic -- 19.1 percent
• Evangelical and Conservative Protestant -- 14.3 percent
• Mainline Protestant -- 7.3 percent
• Other faiths (including those of the Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist and other faiths) -- 2.2 percent
• LDS -- 2 percent
• Black Protestant -- 1.6 percent
• Orthodox Christian -- 0.3 percent

U.S. national growth in the number of adherents, selected faiths, 2000 to 2010:

• Muslim -- 66.7 percent
• Mormon -- 45.5 percent
• Protestant, Evangelical -- 1.7 percent
• Protestant, Mainline -- (-12.8) percent
• Catholic -- (-5) percent

Comparable growth rates, 2000 to 2010, in metropolitan areas of at least 1 million population

• Muslim -- 56.9 percent
• Mormon -- 48.6 percent
• Protestant, Evangelical -- 7.2 percent
• Protestant, Mainline -- (-10.6) percent
• Catholic -- (-5.5) percent

Single largest religion in every U.S. state: Christianity

States in which Islam is the largest non-Christian group: Arkansas, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming

States, including Washington, D.C., in which Judaism is the largest non-Christian group: Connecticut, District of Columbia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee and Vermont

Source: U.S. Religion Census 2010 , compiled by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies at http:// www.asarb.org .Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service, www.scrippsnews.com .